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]

Berry M 2000 Making waves in physics. Three wave singularities from the miraculous 1830s Nature 403 21

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Miyake T and Kalluri R 2014 Cardiac biology: Cell plasticity helps hearts to repair Nature 514 575–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Royer D L, Osborne C P and Beerling D J 2003 Carbon loss by deciduous trees in a CO2-rich ancient polar environment Nature 424 60–2

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

McElreath R, Luttbeg B, Fogarty S P, Brodin T and Sih A 2007 Evolution of animal personalities Nature 450 E5; discussion E5-6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Johansen G A and Jackson P 2005 Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Pohl G 2015 Biomimetics for Architecture & Design: Nature - Analogies - Technology ed W Nachtigall (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ganapati N E 2014 Linking Development to Disasters in Turkey: Moving Forward After the Marmara Earthquake Disaster and Development: Examining Global Issues and Cases ed N Kapucu and K T Liou (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 61–78

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 2015 New Hope for a Dengue Fever Vaccine 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 1993 Aviation Safety: FAA Can Better Prepare General Aviation Pilots for Mountain Flying 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]

Guillory M K 2017 An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in the State of Tennessee Doctoral dissertation ( Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana)

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 M 1992 THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Readies Answer to Bush On Draft Issue New York Times A1

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