Journal overview:

Aims and Scope

Published by the American Mathematical Society, the Journal of the American Mathematical Society (JAMS) is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in mathematics.

Peer Review

All articles appearing in this journal are peer reviewed by external reviewers. Editors may reject papers without external review that are not suitable for publication in the journal due to reasons such as subject matter or clear weaknesses in scientific content or presentation style. Journal of the AMS has a single-anonymous peer-review process in which the reviewers know who the authors of the manuscript are, but the authors do not have access to the information on who the peer reviewers are. Questions about the initial submission process should be directed to [email protected].

Submission information:

Information can be found on the journal's Submission for Peer Review page.

Digitized archive:

The AMS Journals Digitization Project has established a complete digital archive of the back issues of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society from 1988 to 1995. All of these back issues are freely available electronically with fully searchable content. The digitization of the back issues of this journal was made possible through the generous support of an anonymous donor. To access this material click on "All Issues: 1988-Present."

Copying and reprinting:

Individual readers of this publication, and nonprofit libraries acting for them, are permitted to make fair use of the material, such as to copy an article for use in teaching or research. Permission is granted to quote brief passages from this publication in reviews, provided the customary acknowledgment of the source is given.

Republication, systematic copying, or multiple reproduction of any material in this publication is permitted only under license from the American Mathematical Society. Requests for permission to reuse portions of AMS publication content are handled by the Copyright Clearance Center. For more information, please visit our page on requesting permissions for AMS journal and book content.

Excluded from these provisions is material for which the author holds copyright. In such cases, requests for permission to reuse or reprint material should be addressed directly to the author(s). Copyright ownership is indicated in the notice in the lower right-hand corner of the first page of each article.

Publishing cycle:

The Journal of the American Mathematical Society is published quarterly with articles electronically published individually to the AMS website before appearing in an issue. The Journal is also accessible electronically from the Journal of the AMS landing page.

Indexing and archiving notes:

This journal is indexed in Mathematical Reviews®, Zentralblatt MATH, Science Citation Index®, Science Citation IndexT—Expanded, ISI Alerting Services, CompuMath Citation Index®, and Current Contents®, Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences. This journal is archived in Portico and in CLOCKSS.

Subscriptions:

Visit the Subscriber Info page for information on how to subscribe to AMS journals.

Offprint information:

Offprints are provided free of charge in electronic form to all authors. A downloadable and printable PDF version of each article is available from the AMS website following print publication. Notification email containing access information is sent to all authors as soon as an issue is published in print. This electronic delivery system provides authors with permanent electronic access to their published material.

Inquiries:

Any inquiries concerning a paper that has been accepted for publication that cannot be answered via the manuscript tracking system should be sent by email or by postal mail to the Electronic PrePress Department, American Mathematical Society, 201 Charles Street, Providence, RI 02904-2213 USA.

Editorial Board Past Editorial Board Members

To contact the JAMS Editorial Office send email to [email protected].

• Laura G. DeMarco
  Managing Editor
  Harvard University
• Editors
• Mohammed Abouzaid
  Stanford University
• Lawrence Guth
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sylvia Serfaty
  Sorbonne Université and New York University
• Richard Taylor
  Stanford University
• Burt Totaro
  University of California, Los Angeles
• Valentino Tosatti
  New York University - Courant Institute
• Associate Editors
• Benjamin Antieau
  Northwestern University
• Alfonso Bandeira
  ETH Zurich
• Valentin Blomer
  University of Bonn
• Ana Caraiani
  Imperial College London
• Jian Ding
  Peking University
• Bassam Fayad
  University of Maryland
• David Gabai
  Princeton University
• Bruce A. Kleiner
  New York University-Courant Institute
• Thomas Fun Yau Lam
  University of Michigan
• Ivan Losev
  Yale University
• Maryanthe Malliaris
  University of Chicago
• Leonid Polterovich
  Tel Aviv University
• Jeremy Quastel
  University of Toronto
• Alexander Razborov
  University of Chicago
• Luis Silvestre
  University of Chicago
• Gigliola Staffilani
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Richard Thomas
  Imperial College London
• Joel Tropp
  California Institute of Technology
• Melanie Matchett Wood
  Harvard University
• Chenyang Xu
  Princeton University

The editorial office for Journal of the American Mathematical Society can be contacted by email or by postal mail to the Electronic PrePress Department, American Mathematical Society, 201 Charles Street, Providence, RI 02904-2213 USA.

Submission

All articles submitted to this journal are peer-reviewed. The Journal of the AMS has a single anonymous process in which the reviewers know who the authors of the manuscript are, but the authors do not have access to the information on who the peer reviewers are. The AMS uses Centralized Manuscript Processing for initial submissions to AMS journals. The preferred method of submission is to upload a PDF file using the Initial Manuscript Submission form. 

An alternate method is to send one copy of the paper to the following address:

If a paper copy is being forwarded to the AMS, the following information is required with the submission (note that all contact information, particularly email addresses, must be supplied to avoid delay):

• Name of the journal to which the paper is submitted
• Name of the corresponding author
• Contact information including email address and mailing address
• The author should suggest an appropriate Editor to review the paper

No paper that has been previously published, or is being considered for publication elsewhere, should be submitted to the American Mathematical Society, nor may a paper that is under consideration by the American Mathematical Society be submitted elsewhere.

Included with the footnotes to the paper should be the 2020 Mathematics Subject Classification representing the primary and secondary subjects of the article. 

The AMS Author Resource Center provides TeX Resources, the AMS Style Guide, the Mathematics Subject Classification, and further useful tools for preparing your manuscript. Journal abbreviations used in bibliographies are available for download.

After Acceptance

Once a paper has been accepted for publication, authors should follow the online Submission Instructions.

All authors must submit the Consent to Publish. All authors must agree regarding the Copyright Agreement. If the article is to be published in one of the AMS Open Access journals, authors must agree which Creative Commons License will be selected. Authors are encouraged to use AMS-prepared style files in preparing their papers.

Useful Tools

• Language editing services available from Charlesworth Author Services
• AMS journal article templates from Overleaf
• Permissions
• Preparing graphics
• Joint Author Guidelines for Preparing Accessible Mathematics Content

Although an abstract is not required upon initial submission, upon acceptance authors will be requested to supply an abstract for the electronic version of this journal. An abstract should be at least one complete sentence and at most 300 words. The AMS offers free worldwide access to the electronic abstracts. No abstracts appear in the printed journal starting in 1998.