BibTeX to AMA Citation Converter

Convert BibTeX entries to AMA style references in seconds. Paste any @article or @book entry and copy a clean AMA citation. Free, no sign-up.

Paste a BibTeX entry to get the AMA citation

What is BibTeX?

BibTeX is the reference format used by LaTeX and by reference managers such as Zotero, JabRef, and Mendeley. Each entry starts with an @ sign and a type – @article, @book, @inproceedings – followed by a citation key and a set of field–value pairs for authors, title, journal, year, and pages. BibTeX stores the raw data of a reference rather than a formatted citation, which makes it ideal input for conversion: every field is already labeled, so nothing has to be guessed from punctuation. Paste one or more entries into CiteTools and the parser reads the fields directly. The citation is built from the fields in your entry, as you wrote them, and is marked As written. The output is a finished citation you can paste into a paper written in Word or Google Docs.

How the BibTeX to AMA conversion works

Copy a BibTeX entry from your .bib file or reference manager and paste it into the input field.
CiteTools parses the entry’s fields and decodes LaTeX markup such as protective braces and accent commands.
Copy the formatted citation, or export the result as plain text, RIS, Word, Rich Text, LaTeX, or PDF.

Example input:

@article{watson1953,
  author  = {Watson, James D. and Crick, Francis H. C.},
  title   = {Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids},
  journal = {Nature},
  volume  = {171},
  pages   = {737--738},
  year    = {1953},
  doi     = {10.1038/171737a0}
}

About AMA Style

American Medical Association - used in medicine, nursing, and public health.

AMA style, from the AMA Manual of Style 11th edition, is the numbered system of JAMA and of many medical, nursing, and public health journals. Authors are a surname plus initials without periods, article titles use sentence case, journal names take their NLM abbreviation in italics, the year, volume, issue, and full page range follow, and a DOI closes the entry. CiteTools follows those rules and cuts seven or more authors to the first three and et al.

Frequently asked questions

Which BibTeX entry types are supported?

The common types all work: @article, @book, @incollection, @inproceedings, @phdthesis, @techreport, and @misc. CiteTools maps each type onto the matching reference form in your chosen style.

Do I need the full entry?

The parser needs the fields your target style prints. Author, title, and year produce a usable citation; adding journal, volume, and pages makes it complete. A missing field stays missing. Paste the DOI on its own if you want the registered record.

Will braces and LaTeX escapes be cleaned up in AMA?

Yes. Protective braces around capital letters and LaTeX accent commands are decoded before formatting, so the AMA output contains normal readable text instead of markup.