How to format your references using the Russian Mathematical Surveys citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Russian Mathematical Surveys. 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]

Kondo S 2014 Developmental biology. Self-organizing somites Science 343 736–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Grewal S I S and Moazed D 2003 Heterochromatin and epigenetic control of gene expression Science 301 798–802

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bietenholz M F, Bartel N and Rupen M P 2004 Discovery of a compact radio component in the center of supernova 1986J Science 304 1947–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Arrasate M, Mitra S, Schweitzer E S, Segal M R and Finkbeiner S 2004 Inclusion body formation reduces levels of mutant huntingtin and the risk of neuronal death Nature 431 805–10

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kario K 2015 Essential Manual of 24 Hour Blood Pressure Management (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Fischer-Hübner S, Duquenoy P, Zuccato A and Martucci L 2008 The Future of Identity in the Information Society: Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.6, 11.7/FIDIS International Summer School on The Future of Identity in the Information Society, Karlstad University, Sweden, August 4–10, 2007 vol 262 (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Law G R, Baxter P D and Gilthorpe M S 2012 Selection Bias in Epidemiologic Studies Modern Methods for Epidemiology ed Y-K Tu and D C Greenwood (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 57–71

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 Mathematical Surveys.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J 2016 Dinosaurs May Have Evolved Up To 20 Million Years Earlier Than Thought 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 2007 Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Challenges and Risks Remain (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]

Kuang S-Y H 2010 “And the War Came”: A memorial to devastated lives 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]

Stuart C, Monkovic T and Bretherton G 2010 1,000 Yards Later, It’s O.K. to Ask, Who Is That Guy? New York Times B14

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 Mathematical Surveys
Abbreviation	Russ. Math. Surv.
ISSN (print)	0036-0279
ISSN (online)	1468-4829
Scope	General Mathematics