How to format your references using the Russian Chemical Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Russian Chemical Reviews. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Bevan M 2011 Genomics: endless variation most beautiful Nature 477 415–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chandonia J-M and Brenner S E 2006 The impact of structural genomics: expectations and outcomes Science 311 347–51

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Barsic A, Grover G and Piestun R 2014 Three-dimensional super-resolution and localization of dense clusters of single molecules Sci. Rep. 4 5388

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Jiang L, Kiselova N, Rosén J and Ilag L L 2014 Quantification of neurotoxin BMAA (β-N-methylamino-L-alanine) in seafood from Swedish markets Sci. Rep. 4 6931

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Vettese F 2015 The Essential Retirement Guide (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc)

An edited book

[1]

Yu D and Hung M-C 2007 Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity vol 608 (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gritzmann P 2006 On the Mathematics of Semantic Spaces Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ed R Köhler (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 95–115

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Russian Chemical Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Astronaut Alexander Gerst Made Mind-Blowing Time-Lapse Of Images From ISS IFLScience

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1982 Improving COBOL Application Can Recover Significant Computer Resources (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Fletcher B 2017 Tropes of Dis/Ableism as Flexible Stigma: Examining Brenda Connors’ 2008 Report as an Instance of Dis/Ableist Polemical Rhetoric Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Tankersley J 2017 Federal Debt Is Not Reduced By Gains in Market New York Times B2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Russian Chemical Reviews
Abbreviation	Russ. Chem. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0036-021X
ISSN (online)	1468-4837
Scope	General Chemistry