General Information for Journal Authors

Preparing your manuscript for publication

Benefits of using LaTeX to prepare electronic manuscripts
Information about AMS author packages
- Links to journal specific author packages are found on each journal's home page or in a list of all journals.
Tips for preparing an electronic manuscript
- LaTeX
- AMS-TeX
- LaTeX 2.09
Creating graphics
TeX resources
MR Lookup - A Reference Tool for Linking
- MR Lookup is a tool for creating and verifying references and for adding links to MathSciNet, in many cases indirectly adding links to original papers.

Submitting your manuscript

A Consent to Publish and Copyright Agreement is required before a paper will be published. These can be found on the home page of each journal. AMS authors may choose to dedicate their work to the public domain after 28 years from date of publication. For further information, see the article by John Ewing in the March 2004 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society entitled A Modest Proposal.

Permissions

Authors should obtain written permissions for use in their work of tables, figures, text, and other material taken from another source and previously published or owned by another author or publisher for use in both the print and electronic media.

Where to send files for accepted papers

Links to specific instructions are available on each journal's home page.

Tracking the progress of your manuscript

Track an accepted article through the AMS journals publication stream using the Manuscript tracking system.

Making changes to articles after posting

To preserve the integrity of electronically published articles, once an article is individually posted but not yet in an issue, changes cannot be made in place in the article. The AMS policy on making changes to articles after posting provides information about submitting an "Added after posting" section, if the article has not been published in a print issue, or an Errata, if the article has already been included in an issue.

Offprints

For most AMS journals, free downloadable and printable PDF versions of published articles will be available upon print publication.

Notification email will be sent as soon as an article is published in print with information about accessing the offprints site through each author's AMS Web account. If an author has an existing Web account, a reminder of their Username will be provided to help log in. If an author does not have a Web account, their AMS customer code (AMSID) will be provided to use along with their name and email to establish a Web account.

This electronic delivery system eliminates the delay from print publication to offprint delivery that previously resulted from printing, sorting, and mailing paper offprints and will provide authors with permanent access to their article once it is published.

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