# TeX Resources

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) offers access to a family of TeX-related products for the convenience of authors and MathSciNet searchers.

## American Mathematical Society TeX Products

For the convenience of authors, the AMS supports a family of TeX-related style file collections, fonts, manuals, and author packages for preparing submissions to AMS publications.

• Three collections provide basic support for preparation of mathematical publications. Each collection includes a user's guide. These collections are bundled as zip files suitable for all platforms.
They are also part of the basic TeX Live distribution; if you already have a recent TeX Live (or similar system-specific) installation, it is not necessary to obtain these collections separately.
• Some additional LaTeX utilities are not part of the above collections:
• amsrefs -- control bibliography style through LaTeX rather than BibTeX
• snapshot -- create a list of external dependencies for a LaTeX document

## Tools for Reference Checking and Linking

• Authors can access the MR Database to verify and create references that can link to MathSciNet items and original sources.
• MRef is the free AMS tool for creating standard references with links to MathSciNet.
• Input is unfielded, meaning that no special input format is required, beyond entering the author name(s) first.
• Punctuation and formatting (e.g., TeX and HTML) is ignored.
• MRef returns formatted bibliographic data together with active links to MathSciNet.
• The formats include MathSciNet, BibTeX, and AMSRefs.
• MR Lookup is another free tool for referencing and linking available from the AMS. Data can be retrieved in BibTeX format.

## Support for American Mathematical Society TeX Products

• Support for these products is available from
Technical Support
Publications Technical Group
American Mathematical Society
201 Charles Street
Providence, RI 02904-2213

Email: tech-support@ams.org
• The AMS on-line bookstore contains a selection of TeX-related titles and other works relevant to writing mathematics.