How to format your references using the Sbornik: Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sbornik: Mathematics. 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]

Gravitz L 2014 Therapy: This time it’s personal Nature 509 S52-4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Crudgington H S and Siva-Jothy M T 2000 Genital damage, kicking and early death Nature 407 855–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Artyukhin A B, Schroeder F C and Avery L 2013 Density dependence in Caenorhabditis larval starvation Sci. Rep. 3 2777

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Jaenicke-Després V, Buckler E S, Smith B D, Gilbert M T P, Cooper A, Doebley J and Pääbo S 2003 Early allelic selection in maize as revealed by ancient DNA Science 302 1206–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Butler K C 2016 Multinational Finance (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc)

An edited book

[1]

Kerikmäe T and Chochia A 2016 Political and Legal Perspectives of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bellardita L 2013 Dalla visita multidisciplinare alla riunione collegiale Il tumore alla prostata: Paziente, familiari e medici: esperienze narrate ed L Bellardita, T Magnani and R Valdagni (Milano: Springer) pp 25–35

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 Sbornik: Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 Broca’s Area of Speech In Brain Surprisingly Inactive During Talking 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 1999 Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Needs to Accelerate Time Frames for Completing Contingency Planning (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]

Robinson-Scott D 2010 Policy analysis of the Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 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]

Shear M D 2017 Democratic Coalition Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Over Health Care Law New York Times A19

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	Sbornik: Mathematics
Abbreviation	Russ. Acad. Sci. Sb. Math.
ISSN (print)	1064-5616
ISSN (online)	1468-4802
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory