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]

Kadanoff L P 2013 Kenneth Geddes Wilson (1936-2013) Nature 500 30

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dulvy N K and Kindsvater H K 2015 Ecology: Recovering the potential of coral reefs Nature 520 304–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kitajima T S, Kawashima S A and Watanabe Y 2004 The conserved kinetochore protein shugoshin protects centromeric cohesion during meiosis Nature 427 510–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Tu X, Manohar S, Jagota A and Zheng M 2009 DNA sequence motifs for structure-specific recognition and separation of carbon nanotubes Nature 460 250–3

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Allerton D 2009 Principles of Flight Simulation (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Omatu S, Semalat A, Bocewicz G, Sitek P, Nielsen I E, García García J A and Bajo J 2016 Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 13th International Conference vol 474 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aerts R, Cornelissen J H C and Dorrepaal E 2006 Plant performance in a warmer world: general responses of plants from cold, northern biomes and the importance of winter and spring events Plants and Climate Change Tasks for vegetation science ed J Rozema, R Aerts and H Cornelissen (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 65–78

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]

O`Callaghan J 2016 Key Ingredients For Life Found On Comet 67P 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 Responses to Questions for the Record: February 11, 2009, Hearing on the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 (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]

Chryssis A N 2010 Design and fabrication of high-performance interband cascade tunable external cavity lasers Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Williams J 2017 Next Time, Maybe Don’t Use Airbnb New York Times C1

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