Is there an add-in to add AMA reference style to Word 2007?

[Joe C.]

I usually use APA style references, but a journal I am submitting to requires
AMA style. Rather than manually change each reference, I was hoping that
there was an more efficient way.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Joe

I usually use APA style references, but a journal I am submitting to requires
AMA style. Rather than manually change each reference, I was hoping that
there was an more efficient way.

you are using Word's new citation feature? It looks to me that the
chosen citation style is a (per document) global setting. So, if you
switch from APA to AMA, all inserted citations are updated simultaneously.

2cents
Robert

 

[Joe C.]

Thanx, but that's the problem, there is no AMA setting.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Joe

Thanx, but that's the problem, there is no AMA setting.

oh... sorry, didn't check that in my language version.

I would enquire with AMA itself if they have some Word 2007 Add-In
already or in the making.

It's possible in theory to create one yourself, but even the sheer
length of XML coding needed seems pretty prohibitive ... :-(

Others are definitely more knowledgeable than me, but I had no luck with
normal VBA to get there, either: anything concerning citations is either
not recorded by the macro recorder, or not exposed in the Word object
model at all.

Find/Replace might help, if the entries are all alike. For a one-journal
job, you're probably quicker doing it manually though. :-[

2cents
Robert

 

[Joe C.]

Thanx

Hi Joe

Thanx, but that's the problem, there is no AMA setting.

oh... sorry, didn't check that in my language version.

I would enquire with AMA itself if they have some Word 2007 Add-In
already or in the making.

It's possible in theory to create one yourself, but even the sheer
length of XML coding needed seems pretty prohibitive ... :-(

Others are definitely more knowledgeable than me, but I had no luck with
normal VBA to get there, either: anything concerning citations is either
not recorded by the macro recorder, or not exposed in the Word object
model at all.

Find/Replace might help, if the entries are all alike. For a one-journal
job, you're probably quicker doing it manually though. :-[

2cents
Robert
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