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American Marketing Association Citation Generator
Generate references in American Marketing Association from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.
What an American Marketing Association reference looks like
American Marketing Association is an author-date style: the in-text citation gives the author surname and year in parentheses.
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Journal article
Babonis, Leslie S. and Mark Q. Martindale (2022), “A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians,” PNAS, 119 (19), e2113701119.
Book
Kuhn, Thomas S. (1970), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press.
Web page
IPCC (2021), “Climate change 2021: the physical science basis,” (accessed July 15, 2026), [available at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/].
In-text citation
(Babonis and Martindale 2022)
Journal article with 26 authors
Harris, Charles R., K. Jarrod Millman, Stéfan J. van der Walt, Ralf Gommers, Pauli Virtanen, David Cournapeau, Eric Wieser, Julian Taylor, Sebastian Berg, Nathaniel J. Smith, Robert Kern, Matti Picus, Stephan Hoyer, Marten H. van Kerkwijk, Matthew Brett, Allan Haldane, Jaime Fernández del Río, Mark Wiebe, Pearu Peterson, Pierre Gérard-Marchant, Kevin Sheppard, Tyler Reddy, Warren Weckesser, Hameer Abbasi, Christoph Gohlke, and Travis E. Oliphant (2020), “Array programming with NumPy,” Nature, 585 (7825), 357–62.
American Marketing Association at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in the social sciences and communications.
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al. 2020).
- First names are written out in full.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent.
- The style file was last updated in July 2020.
The guide this style follows: ama.org
How American Marketing Association compares with Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (author-date)
Where American Marketing Association differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
The same journal article in Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (author-date)
Babonis, Leslie S., and Mark Q. Martindale. 2022. “A Novel Regulatory Gene Network in Cnidarians.” PNAS 119 (19): e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119.
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does American Marketing Association list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26. In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al. 2020).
How does American Marketing Association handle DOIs and web pages?
The reference leaves the DOI out. Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in American Marketing Association?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. The reference list uses a hanging indent.
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