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

Buckholtz, N. S. (2011). Perspective: in search of biomarkers. Nature, 475(7355), S8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Topisirovic, I., & Sonenberg, N. (2010). Cell biology. Burn out or fade away? Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5970), 1210–1211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prajeesh, A. G., Ashok, K., & Rao, D. V. B. (2013). Falling monsoon depression frequency: a Gray-Sikka conditions perspective. Scientific reports, 3, 2989.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Huang, G., Hou, C., Shao, Y., Wang, H., Zhang, Q., Li, Y., & Zhu, M. (2014). Highly strong and elastic graphene fibres prepared from universal graphene oxide precursors. Scientific reports, 4, 4248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwarz, D. R. (2014). Reading the European Novel to 1900. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Escher, J., Schrohe, E., Seiler, J., & Walker, C. (Eds.). (2015). Elliptic and Parabolic Equations: Hannover, September 2013 (Vol. 119). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Goodess, C. M., Agnew, M. D., Giannakopoulos, C., Hemming, D., Salem, S. B., Bindi, M., et al. (2013). Integration of the Climate Impact Assessments with Future Projections. In A. Navarra & L. Tubiana (Eds.), Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 3: Case Studies (pp. 105–162). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. (2017, May 4). The Dark Web Is Actually More Of An Archipelago. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-dark-web-is-actually-more-of-an-archipelago/. 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. (1976). Acquisition of Automatic Data Processing Equipment (No. B-115369.07). 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

Colker, J. O. (2008). A grounded theory approach to developing a theory of leadership through a case study of ShoreBank (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, June 3). N.H.L. Is Playing on Its Home Ice. New York Times, p. B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckholtz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Buckholtz 2011; Topisirovic and Sonenberg 2010).

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

Two authors: (Topisirovic and Sonenberg 2010)
Three or more authors: (Huang 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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