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All submissions to AMS journals and BAMS must follow the formatting requirements specified below or the submission will be returned for correction.
Authors using Word for their manuscript should use the AMS Word Template for proper formatting, while LaTeX authors should use the AMS LaTeX template for proper formatting. Information on the various manuscript components is presented below.
Submissions may also contain Supplemental Material (if any) that should be prepared and uploaded separately from the main manuscript content.
Abstracts: 250 words. This conforms to ISO standards and the needs of abstracting services (MGA, etc.).
Significance Statement (optional for journal submissions, required for BAMS articles): Up to 120 words.
Articles: Up to 7500 words, including the body text, acknowledgments, and appendixes. The word limit does not include the title page, abstract, significance statement, data availability statement, references, captions, tables, and figures. If a submission exceeds the word limit, the author must provide a justification for the length of the manuscript and request the Chief Editor’s approval of the overage. This request may be uploaded in a document with the "Cover Letter" item type or entered in the comment field in the submission system.
The manuscript title, name and affiliation of each author, any current or additional affiliations, and corresponding author email need to appear on the first page in the manuscript file. The institution(s) where authors conducted the research should be listed as the main affiliation and any current or additional affiliations can be indicated with an additional footnote. For more information regarding author lists, please see Your Author List.
A concise (≤250 words) abstract is required at the beginning of each article and, at the discretion of the chief editors, at the beginning of appropriate shorter contributions. Authors should summarize their conclusions and methods in the abstract. Footnotes, reference citations, and urls or hyperlinks are not permitted.
Please note the abstract text in the manuscript must match exactly the abstract text entered in the abstract field of the upload system. If the abstract text entered in the abstract field of the upload system does not match the abstract in the manuscript then the submission will be returned to the author for correction.
A plain language summary suitable for wider readership that provides additional context for why the work is relevant to science and society. This element is optional for journal submissions and required for BAMS Articles. It should be concise (≤120 words), written in a single paragraph style, and authors should follow the guidelines for significance statements.
The text should be divided into sections, each with a separate heading and numbered consecutively. The section/subsection headings should be typed on a separate line [e.g., 1. Introduction, a. Data, 1) RADIOSONDE, and (i) Experiment 1]. Sections in BAMS need not be numbered. See above for more information on Formatting.
The AMS requires that all topically relevant funding sources, including recipients and grant numbers, as well as conflicts of interest, are fully disclosed in the Acknowledgments of all submissions. Please omit the word “number” from grant or contract information.
Authors are required to include an Availability Statement in its own section to inform the reader where the data and software associated with a paper are available, and how and under what conditions (if any) they can be accessed(please see the updated Data and Software Policy and Guidelines). Include a list of the repositories along with associated persistent digital object identifiers (DOIs), if applicable.
Auxiliary analyses or tables whose details are subordinate to the main theme of the paper should normally appear in an appendix. Any tables or figures appearing in an appendix should be numbered with the letter prefix of the appendix (for example, Figure A1, Table A1, Table A2, etc.) and embedded with the full caption text within the appendix near the first citation of the element. An appendix must include paragraph text citing/describing each appendix table and/or appendix figure, even if it is also described in the body of the paper. Each appendix must have a title. Example: APPENDIX A Use of Model Data
References should be arranged alphabetically without numbering. The in-text citation should consist of the author's name and year of publication, [e.g., “according to Rossby (1945),” or “as shown by an earlier study (Rossby 1945)”]. When there are two or more papers by the same author in the same year, the distinguishing suffix (a, b, etc.) should be added.
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The tables should be embedded in the body of the manuscript as close as possible to its first citation following a paragraph (we understand this placement may not always be possible for authors using LaTeX). Text wrapping should not be used. The caption must be visually distinguished from the body text, either with single-spaced caption text, with 10.5 pt. font size captions, or with an extra line break following the caption to separate it from the body text. Please use the same format for all table captions in the manuscript. Each table must be cited specifically in the text and in numerical order, and have a caption directly beneath the table. See above for more details about formatting tables.
For additional information regarding which item type to select when uploading your figure source files, please refer to the list of item types.
Supplemental material has strong relevance to the article and is especially useful for large tables that might be unnecessary for the general reader or for animations and other digital content. Please note that any additional content that can be presented reasonably as an appendix should be submitted as such—e.g., text, figures, normal-sized tables, and equations—rather than as a supplement. Supplements ultimately are published as separate files online, whereas appendixes are included in the file of the article. Referring to the supplemental material in the text is beneficial to the reader. However, supplements are separate files from the main article file. As a result, in general, added text or graphics that are conducive to a PDF format will be more accessible to readers if presented as appendixes in the main article, after the body text and before the references.
The corresponding author will select between three and six keywords from a predefined classification taxonomy in Editorial Manager during the submission process. Keywords should not be included in the main manuscript file(s) and will be ignored if included within submission files. For additional information and a preview of the taxonomy that will be available for selection, see Keywords.