How to cite a report in AMA 11
Short answer
How do you cite a report in AMA 11?
You need issuing organisation, year, report title, report number (if any), publisher, url. The reference list entry looks like this:
Students OF. Student outcomes and teaching excellence. Office for Students; 2025.
The matching in-text citation is 1.
Gather the details
You need: Issuing organisation, Year, Report title, Report number (if any), Publisher, URL. Take them from the source itself, not from a database record, which is often incomplete.
Order the elements
AMA 11 is a numeric style, so the reference is numbered in citation order. Follow the pattern in the example below exactly, including its punctuation.
Add the in-text citation
Every reference needs a matching in-text citation. In AMA 11 that is 1. Missing or mismatched in-text citations are penalised more often than formatting slips.
Check against your own guide
Institutional variants exist, particularly in Harvard. Where your department's published guide differs from any generator, the department's guide wins.
What you need
Details to collect
- Issuing organisation
- Year
- Report title
- Report number (if any)
- Publisher
- URL
Watch out
Mistakes this pairing invites
- Leaving the report number out when the organisation assigns one.
- Citing a press release about a report rather than the report itself.
- Using a personal author when the organisation is the corporate author.
- Citation numbers are superscript, placed after punctuation.
- Article titles use sentence case; journal abbreviations are italicised.
Compare
The same report in all eight styles
Students, O. F. (2025) Student outcomes and teaching excellence. Office for Students.
Students, O. F. (2025). Student outcomes and teaching excellence. Office for Students. https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/
Students, Office for. Student Outcomes and Teaching Excellence. Office for Students, 2025.
Students, Office for. Student Outcomes and Teaching Excellence. Office for Students, 2025.
Students OF. Student outcomes and teaching excellence. Office for Students; 2025.
Office for Students, Student Outcomes and Teaching Excellence (Office for Students 2025)
O. F. Students, Student Outcomes and Teaching Excellence, Office for Students, 2025.
AMA 11
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Frequently asked questions
- How do you cite a report in AMA 11?
- Students OF. Student outcomes and teaching excellence. Office for Students; 2025. — that is the reference list entry. The matching in-text citation is 1. You need issuing organisation, year, report title, report number (if any), publisher, url.
- What details do I need to cite a report?
- Issuing organisation, Year, Report title, Report number (if any), Publisher, URL. If a detail is genuinely unavailable, most styles have a defined substitute — for example 'n.d.' or 'no date' where no publication year exists — rather than simply omitting the element.
- What is the in-text citation for a report in AMA 11?
- 1. The number is assigned by order of first appearance and reused for every later citation of the same source.