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]

Venkitaraman A R 2014 Cancer suppression by the chromosome custodians, BRCA1 and BRCA2 Science 343 1470–5

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gombosi T I and Hansen K C 2005 Saturn’s variable magnetosphere Science 307 1224–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Weston C R, Lambright D G and Davis R J 2002 Signal transduction. MAP kinase signaling specificity Science 296 2345–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Schiano P, Clocchiatti R, Ottolini L and Busà T 2001 Transition of Mount Etna lavas from a mantle-plume to an island-arc magmatic source Nature 412 900–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Venkateshan S P 2015 Mechanical Measurements (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Barjolle D, Gorton M, Milošević Đorđević J and Stojanović Ž 2013 Food Consumer Science: Theories, Methods and Application to the Western Balkans (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Marschner P and Rengel Z 2004 Contributions of Rhizosphere Interactions to Soil Biological Fertility Soil Biological Fertility: A Key to Sustainable Land Use in Agriculture ed L K Abbott and D V Murphy (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 81–98

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 America’s Most Lethal Animal 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 1976 General Accounting Office Reviews of Federal Environmental Research and Development (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]

Yu G 2013 Religious/spiritual beliefs and practices of Asian/Asian American mental health professionals & students and the impact on treatment Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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]

Rothenberg B 2016 Remodeling the U.S. Fed Cup Team New York Times B10

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