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 2005 Scientific personalities Nature 433 177

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ellison C E and Bachtrog D 2013 Dosage compensation via transposable element mediated rewiring of a regulatory network Science 342 846–50

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lutz W, Sanderson W and Scherbov S 2001 The end of world population growth Nature 412 543–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Fedorov A V, Dekens P S, McCarthy M, Ravelo A C, deMenocal P B, Barreiro M, Pacanowski R C and Philander S G 2006 The Pliocene paradox (mechanisms for a permanent El Niño) Science 312 1485–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Goshtasby A A 2017 Theory and Applications of Image Registration (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Steels L 2012 Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar: A New Formalism for the Representation of Lexicons and Grammars vol 7249 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sahu P K, Pal S R and Das A K 2015 Likelihood Ratio Test Estimation and Inferential Statistics ed S R Pal and A K Das (New Delhi: Springer India) pp 103–29

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]

Taub B 2016 800,000-Year-Old Homo Erectus Footprints Found In Eritrea 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 2011 Commercial Launch Vehicles: NASA Taking Measures to Manage Delays and Risks (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]

Gunathilaka D 2015 Compliance with dietary restrictions among African American older adults with chronic kidney disease in a nursing home setting 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]

Kelly C 2012 It’s Not Billions, But It Can Help Rescue an Artist New York Times BU1

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