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

Nürnberg, D. (2000). PALEOCLIMATE: Taking the Temperature of Past Ocean Surfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5485), 1698–1699.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, N., & Grey, C. P. (2002). Probing oxygen motion in disordered anionic conductors with 17O and 51V MAS NMR spectroscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5585), 1317–1320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kitajima, T. S., Kawashima, S. A., & Watanabe, Y. (2004). The conserved kinetochore protein shugoshin protects centromeric cohesion during meiosis. Nature, 427(6974), 510–517.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Elyada, E., Pribluda, A., Goldstein, R. E., Morgenstern, Y., Brachya, G., Cojocaru, G., et al. (2011). CKIα ablation highlights a critical role for p53 in invasiveness control. Nature, 470(7334), 409–413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph, G. (2012). Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook. The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Valadi, J., & Siarry, P. (Eds.). (2014). Applications of Metaheuristics in Process Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dessimoz, J.-D., & Gauthey, P.-F. (2010). What Role for Emotions in Cooperating Robots? – The Case of RH3-Y. In A. Gottscheber, D. Obdržálek, & C. Schmidt (Eds.), Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2009: International Conference, La Ferté-Bernard, France, May 21-23, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 38–46). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Fang, J. (2015, September 10). Monogamous Penguins Are Apart More Often Than They’re Together. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monogamous-penguins-are-apart-more-often-theyre-together/. 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. (1993). Health Information Systems: National Practitioner Data Bank Continues to Experience Problems (No. IMTEC-93-1). 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

Williams, A. P. (2012). Reentry of Substance Abusing Female Ex-Offenders from Prison to an Urban Community (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Eligon, J. (2016, November 21). Perseverance Pays for Ward, a New Champion and, Maybe, the Sport’s Next Big Star. New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nürnberg 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kim and Grey 2002; Nürnberg 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Grey 2002)
Three or more authors: (Elyada et al. 2011)

About the journal

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