APA or AMA for Citing?

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   I'm citing from an NCBI resource. They give several choices. Do I choose APA or AMA style?

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      Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      I would prefer APA. As far as I remember once Mr. Glenn told me that every time when you add resources to the article, go for APA. So I Always do it. I hope it would be equally beneficial in your case as well.
      Best wishes!

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      EUGBUG, I think HubPages favours the APA format. I've not heard writers here copying with AMA model.

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      CYong74posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      I use APA. But only because that was what I had to use in university.

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   Glenn Stokposted 3 years ago

   Thanks for mentioning that Misbah. For anyone who wants to know, I use the APA citation guide listed at https://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/website/
   
   The format is a little different if you're citing a book, magazine, or newspaper, but there are links at the bottom of that page to the guildlines for each of those, and more.

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      eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks Glenn. I wonder are there any trustworthy automatic citation generators that extract the details reliably? I've tried a few, but doing it manually might be quicker though.

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         Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Hubpages left it for writers to do it manually. Could an automate generator of either the APA or AMA help in creating a title or subheading of an article? That puts me in a dilemma.

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         Glenn Stokposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         I haven’t seen any that automate it. I just do it manually. The APA format is simple. In general, it’s like this:
         
         Author name. (Date of publication). “Title of article in quotes” Name of publication
         
         Then I make the title a text-link to the source.

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   Here's another complication. I used CitationMachine to autogenerate a citation. It came up with this.
   
   
   
   However it was different to the title on the web article.
   
   
   
   
   I examined the page source to find out why and discovered that the metadata title tag was different to what was used on the article.
   
   
   
   
   
   Now on further examination, I discovered that's what's actually on the tab in the browser, although it doesn't appear as the title of the guide anywhere on the page. It's also the name of the page that appears in SERPS.
   
   
   
   
   

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   psycheskinnerposted 3 years ago

   I happen to have been trained on APA and tend to default to it but Hubpages has no preference.

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   Several sites that cover details on APA styling that I've looked at recommend putting a bare URL at the end of citations when citing a website (rather than hyperlinking the name of the reference). I know Hubpages don't like bare URLs for links without anchor text, however I think a non-hyperlinked italicized reference looks better.
   So which method should we use?

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      eugbug, it's better we stick to hubpages' method. That said, we avoid their penalties.

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      Glenn Stokposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      The April 14th weekly Newsletter from HubPages last year talked about referencing the titles of other people's works. Titles of articles in references should have quotation marks around them, but not be italicized.
      
      They also said, "Our style preferences are loosely based on those of the APA (American Psychological Association)."

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   psycheskinnerposted 3 years ago

   You could have an unlinked url to match the style, and a live link from the title.

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