How to format your references using the Russian Journal of Communication citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Russian Journal of Communication. 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

Benedetti-Cecchi, L. (2000). Variance in ecological consumer-resource interactions. Nature, 407(6802), 370–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Z., & Xiao, T. S. (2015). STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Assembling the wheel of death. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6259), 376–377.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levin, E. J., Quick, M., & Zhou, M. (2009). Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of the kidney urea transporter. Nature, 462(7274), 757–761.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, H. C., Kim, S. J., Kim, K. S., Shin, H. C., & Yoon, J. W. (2000). Remission in models of type 1 diabetes by gene therapy using a single-chain insulin analogue. Nature, 408(6811), 483–488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Whitcomb, C. A., & Whitcomb, L. E. (2013). Effective Interpersonal and Team Communication Skills for Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Banik, B. K. (Ed.). (2013). β-Lactams: Unique Structures of Distinction for Novel Molecules (Vol. 30). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Parnabas, V. A., Mahamood, Y., Parnabas, J., & Parnabas, A. M. (2016). Gender Differences on the Sources of Anxiety and Level of Sport Performance Among Malaysian Athletes. In S. I. Ismail, N. Sulaiman, & R. Adnan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology 2015 (ICoSSEET 2015) (pp. 35–41). Springer.

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 Journal of Communication.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 29). Watch This Amphibian Eat Its Mother Alive. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-amphibian-eat-skin-its-mothers-back/

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

Government Accountability Office. (1970). Status, Progress, and Problems in Federal Agency Accounting 1969 Annual Report (B-115398). 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

Nakano, A. M. (2012). Community college swirlers and the transfer function [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Hartocollis, A. (2017, June 2). Celebrations Of Diversity ln Distinct Ceremonies. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Benedetti-Cecchi, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Benedetti-Cecchi, 2000; Liu & Xiao, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Liu & Xiao, 2015)
Three authors: (Levin et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Russian Journal of Communication
Abbreviation	Russ. J. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1940-9419
ISSN (online)	1940-9427
Scope	Communication Political Science and International Relations