TeX Resources
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) offers access to a family of TeX-related products for the convenience of authors and MathSciNet searchers.
- The TeX program is not available from the AMS. It can be obtained
- Our list of other TeX resources may also be helpful.
- CTAN (the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) is the principal public archive of TeX materials.
- CTAN is a synchronized worldwide network of hosts and mirror sites which can be accessed either directly by FTP or via a Web browser.
- Search CTAN by file name or keyword.
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.
The AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX collections are packaged for convenient retrieval by users of several different platforms:
The AMSFonts collection is bundled as a zip file suitable for all platforms.
- 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
Author Packages
- Author packages based on AMS-LaTeX and AMS-TeX and tailored to specific AMS books or journals are available for most AMS publications.
Template for Page Layout for AMS Books
- A grid showing the basic requirements for the page layout, for all standard-format books, is available as a A good way to use the grid is to copy it onto a clear transparency for use as an overlay on the formatted output.
This grid is designed particularly for authors who are not using TeX.
Frequently Asked Questions for AMS Authors
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.
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 02904-2294
Email: tech-support@ams.org
- The AMS on-line bookstore contains a selection of TeX-related titles and other works relevant to writing mathematics.
