How to format your references using the Russian Chemical Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Russian Chemical Reviews. 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]

Foley J A 2005 AtmospheRIC science. Tipping points in the tundra Science 310 627–8

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Deming D and Seager S 2009 Light and shadow from distant worlds Nature 462 301–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zikherman J, Parameswaran R and Weiss A 2012 Endogenous antigen tunes the responsiveness of naive B cells but not T cells Nature 489 160–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bosman M, Ye E, Tan S F, Nijhuis C A, Yang J K W, Marty R, Mlayah A, Arbouet A, Girard C and Han M-Y 2013 Surface plasmon damping quantified with an electron nanoprobe Sci. Rep. 3 1312

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Goldberger A L and Goldberger Z D 2012 Becoming a Consummate Clinician (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Li H 2014 Radiology of HIV/AIDS: A Practical Approach (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sorensen D C and Antoulas A C 2005 On Model Reduction of Structured Systems Dimension Reduction of Large-Scale Systems: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Oberwolfach, Germany, October 19–25, 2003 Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering ed P Benner, D C Sorensen and V Mehrmann (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 117–30

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 Russian Chemical Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Baby Gorilla Born By Emergency C-Section 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 2001 Performance and Accountability: Challenges Facing the Department of Transportation (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]

Lim L 2010 Dual-class vs. single-class firms: Information environment Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington 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]

Shpigel B 2017 Obliviously, Wentz Fuels The Eagles’ Giddy Rise New York Times B7

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	Russian Chemical Reviews
Abbreviation	Russ. Chem. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0036-021X
ISSN (online)	1468-4837
Scope	General Chemistry