How to format your references using the AMS Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AMS Review. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

El-Azab, A. (2008). Materials science. The statistical mechanics of strain-hardened metals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5884), 1729–1730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tamaru, H., & Selker, E. U. (2001). A histone H3 methyltransferase controls DNA methylation in Neurospora crassa. Nature, 414(6861), 277–283.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wade, J. T., Hall, D. B., & Struhl, K. (2004). The transcription factor Ifh1 is a key regulator of yeast ribosomal protein genes. Nature, 432(7020), 1054–1058.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lippmann, E. S., Al-Ahmad, A., Azarin, S. M., Palecek, S. P., & Shusta, E. V. (2014). A retinoic acid-enhanced, multicellular human blood-brain barrier model derived from stem cell sources. Scientific reports, 4, 4160.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Rigby, K. A. (2013). Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Stalmashonak, A. (2013). Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser Engineered Metal-Glass Nanocomposites. (G. Seifert & A. Abdolvand, Eds.). Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Proudler, G., Chen, L., & Dalton, C. (2014). TPM2 Requirements. In L. Chen & C. Dalton (Eds.), Trusted Computing Platforms: TPM2.0 in Context (pp. 131–150). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for AMS Review.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, June 10). Researchers Create A Computer That Works Using Water. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-make-computer-works-using-water/. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1997). The Excepted Service: A Research Profile (No. GGD-97-72). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Malherek, M. N. (2016). The Prevalence and Predictors of Parental Corporal Punishment in the United States (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Schilling, M. K. (2017, February 6). Fine Dining Is Toast. New York Times, p. M2106.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (El-Azab 2008).
This sentence cites two references (El-Azab 2008; Tamaru and Selker 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Tamaru and Selker 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lippmann et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	AMS Review
Abbreviation	AMS Rev.
ISSN (print)	1869-814X
ISSN (online)	1869-8182
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