How to format your references using the Physics-Uspekhi citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physics-Uspekhi. 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]

Wang Q 2014 Rural students are being left behind in China Nature 510 445

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lupulescu A I and Rimer J D 2014 In situ imaging of silicalite-1 surface growth reveals the mechanism of crystallization Science 344 729–32

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Irwin D E, Bensch S and Price T D 2001 Speciation in a ring Nature 409 333–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Kolano C, Helbing J, Kozinski M, Sander W and Hamm P 2006 Watching hydrogen-bond dynamics in a beta-turn by transient two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy Nature 444 469–72

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tolinski M 2011 Plastics and Sustainability (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Hooft S van and Vandekerckhove W 2010 Questioning Cosmopolitanism vol 6 (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Paulheim H 2010 Efficient Semantic Event Processing: Lessons Learned in User Interface Integration The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 30 – June 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part II Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed L Aroyo, G Antoniou, E Hyvönen, A T Teije, H Stuckenschmidt, L Cabral and T Tudorache (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 60–74

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 Physics-Uspekhi.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 Huge Dust Cloud Discovered Around The Moon – But ‘Lunar Glow’ Remains A Mystery 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 1977 Administration of Family Planning Grants Awarded to Genesee Family Planning Program, Inc (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]

Douglas L 2014 Thermogravimetric and Raman Investigations on the Mechanism of Decomposition of Lead Compounds on Tungsten Surfaces Doctoral dissertation (Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University)

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]

David Goodman J and Baker A L 2015 Police in Midtown Wound Suspect in Hammer Attacks New York Times A20

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	Physics-Uspekhi
Abbreviation	Phys.--Usp.
ISSN (print)	1063-7869
ISSN (online)	1468-4780
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy