Author Packages for Publishing with the AMS

Prerequisites

The AMS Author Packages were designed to be used with an existing TeX system.   You must have the following installed:

• TeX   (available as freeware or shareware, or from commercial TeX vendors)
• LaTeX (including AMS-LaTeX extensions)
• AMSFonts   (if using extra symbols)

Packages

Authors may choose and retrieve an author package for any of the following types of publications:

• Monographs
• Collections and proceedings volumes
• Journals

Editors of Collections or proceedings volumes:   Use the AMS Editor's Package to help prepare front and end matter in a standard format and deliver the material to the AMS.

The author package for each publication contains:

• a README file   (read this first)
• topmatter templates
• style files
• the AMS Author Handbook   (available separately as a PDF file)
• samples
• guidelines for creating graphics   (available separately as a PDF file)