MathSciNet Reference Fixes

Please send an email to [email protected], explaining the issue. (This is our all-purpose email address; any mistakes you discover, not just regarding references, you can let us know there.) Give us some time, I promise we'll get to it. However, if it seems as if the request somehow fell through the cracks, you can always contact one of your friendly editors :-) and I'll redirect the request to the relevant person.

That said, there are some exceptions, at least at the moment.

• Papers added to our database through a digitization project from the World Digital Mathematics Library (WDML), such as http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1576401 sometimes carry (rather annoying) mistakes in their bibliographical data, and these mistakes come directly from the data given to us by the publishers. (That paper by Ramsey is an example.) We hope to address this problem eventually but this is not happening currently.
• Other mistakes come from how the journal originally printed the author's name. We make an effort to identify authors appropriately, so the name should still be linked to the right author, but we still indicate the printed error. (For example, see Paul Erdős's name here.) See here for more on this.

There is one last kind of error that I do not believe is what you mean, but it seems worth mentioning anyway. For errors that appear in the list of references taken from the paper, make sure the mistake or typo is ours and not just a transcription of an error that comes from the paper. (We do not fix the latter: "This list reflects references listed in the original paper as accurately as possible with no attempt to correct error.")

You can write them an e-mail. Address is available on MSN under "Contact us". It usually takes some time for them to reply or react, but my experience shows that they always act on e-mails from myself or from my friends, concerning their mistakes. Try to state what the mistake is as clearly as possible and as shortly as possible.