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]

Ravallion M 2014 Income inequality in the developing world Science 344 851–5

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cress C D and Datta S 2013 Engineering. Nanoscale transistors--just around the gate? Science 341 140–1

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liu W, Shang Y and Li W 2014 gp78 elongates of polyubiquitin chains from the distal end through the cooperation of its G2BR and CUE domains Sci. Rep. 4 7138

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Xin H, Liu D, Wan M, Safari A, Kim H, Sun W, O’Connor M S and Songyang Z 2007 TPP1 is a homologue of ciliate TEBP-beta and interacts with POT1 to recruit telomerase Nature 445 559–62

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Johnson M D 2016 Great Myths of Intimate Relationships (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc)

An edited book

[1]

Hamidzadeh H R 2010 Vibrations of Thick Cylindrical Structures ed R N Jazar (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yonath A 2013 A Vestige of an RNA Apparatus With Ribozyme Capabilities Embedded and Functions Within the Modern Ribosome Evolution from the Galapagos: Two Centuries after Darwin Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands ed G Trueba and C Montúfar (New York, NY: Springer) pp 33–40

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]

Luntz S 2015 Superfast Raindrops Seem To Break The Laws Of Physics 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 2004 Informing Our Nation: Improving How to Understand and Assess the USA’s Position and Progress (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]

Hinckley M 2014 Socioecological factors that affect adolescent nervousness and depression 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]

Vaissié C 2017 Can Putin influence the French election? New York Times 0

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