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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Izvestiya: 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

Smaglik P 2004 State of the unions Nature 428 965

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gomes C P and Selman B 2002 Computer science. Satisfied with physics Science 297 784–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yonekura K, Maki-Yonekura S and Namba K 2003 Complete atomic model of the bacterial flagellar filament by electron cryomicroscopy Nature 424 643–50

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Marcheva B, Ramsey K M, Buhr E D, Kobayashi Y, Su H, Ko C H, Ivanova G, Omura C, Mo S, Vitaterna M H, Lopez J P, Philipson L H, Bradfield C A, Crosby S D, JeBailey L, Wang X, Takahashi J S and Bass J 2010 Disruption of the clock components CLOCK and BMAL1 leads to hypoinsulinaemia and diabetes Nature 466 627–31

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McGrath A E 2011 Luther’s Theology of the Cross (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell)

An edited book

[1]

Artikis A, Craven R, Kesim Çiçekli N, Sadighi B and Stathis K 2012 Logic Programs, Norms and Action: Essays in Honor of Marek J. Sergot on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday vol 7360 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fickers P and Nicaud J-M 2013 Biotechnological Applications of Yarrowia lipolytica Lipases: An Overview Yarrowia lipolytica: Biotechnological Applications Microbiology Monographs ed G Barth (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 121–36

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 Izvestiya: Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S 2015 The Four Types Of Non-Vaccinators And How To Argue With Them 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 2009 Highway Trust Fund Expenditures on Purposes Other than Construction and Maintenance of Highways and Bridges during Fiscal Years 2004-2008 (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]

Blalock J M 2014 The Links at St Andrews, Scotland A phenomenological hermeneutic exploration of golf’s primordial place Doctoral dissertation (Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute)

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]

Kenney M 2013 Lonely in the L.P.G.A New York Times SP1

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	Izvestiya: Mathematics
Abbreviation	Izv. Math.
ISSN (print)	1064-5632
ISSN (online)	1468-4810
Scope	General Mathematics