How do you cite a website in AMA format?

AMA style, used widely in medicine and the health sciences, treats websites as electronic references with a clear author or organization, title, URL, and dates. The goal is for a reader to find the same page you used.

A typical pattern is: Author(s). Title of the page. Name of the website. Published date if given. Updated date if given. Accessed date. URL. Skip fields that are unavailable rather than inventing them, and follow the AMA edition required by your journal or school.

Individual authors are listed surname first, then initials. If no person is named, the organization that published the page often takes the author slot. Page titles use sentence case, and website page titles should not be confused with the site name.

Include an accessed date because web content changes. Use a URL that points close to the cited material, not only a homepage, unless the homepage is the source. Avoid tiny URL shorteners in formal reference lists.

In-text citations in AMA are usually superscript Arabic numerals matching the order references first appear. Reuse a source's number when citing it again. PDFs and government pages may need extra care; cite the document title, URL, and accessed date.

Reference managers help, but check author order, capitalization, and accessed date before submitting. Editions differ slightly in punctuation, so consistency matters.

For a clean starting draft, an amacitationgenerator.org can format the author, title, dates, and URL for you to verify against your school's rules.