DOI to AMA Citation Converter
Paste a DOI and get an accurate AMA style citation in seconds. Free DOI to AMA converter backed by live CrossRef metadata. No sign-up, no ads.
Paste a DOI to get the AMA citation
What is a DOI?
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a permanent identifier assigned to a journal article, book chapter, dataset, or other scholarly work. It starts with 10. followed by a publisher prefix and a document suffix – for example, 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2. Unlike a regular URL, a DOI never changes: the registration agency keeps it pointing at the work even when the publisher moves its website. That permanence is what makes a DOI the best possible input for a citation generator. When you paste a DOI into CiteTools, we query CrossRef – the largest DOI registration agency – for the article’s authoritative metadata: authors, title, journal, volume, issue, pages, and publication date. The citation is built from the publisher’s own record, not from text scraped off a web page, so author order, page ranges, and dates come out right.
How the DOI to AMA conversion works
- Paste a DOI such as 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 into the input field – the bare identifier and the full https://doi.org URL both work.
- CiteTools fetches the article’s metadata from CrossRef and validates the record.
- Copy the formatted citation, or switch styles and export formats without re-entering the DOI.
Example input:
10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
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
Where do I find a DOI?
Look near the title or abstract on the article page, in the database record, or on the first page of the PDF. It starts with 10. and is often shown as a https://doi.org link. If you cannot locate one, search the article title at search.crossref.org.
How accurate is the AMA citation?
The citation is built from the publisher’s own CrossRef record, then rendered with the official Citation Style Language definition for AMA. Metadata errors are rare because the data comes from the DOI registration itself rather than from a scraped web page.
Can I convert several DOIs at once?
Yes. Paste up to 100 DOIs separated by blank lines and CiteTools switches to batch mode, returning one formatted citation per DOI in the order you pasted them.