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

Moore, P. B. (2005). Structural biology. A ribosomal coup: E. coli at last! Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5749), 793–795.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., & Watts, A. B. (2005). The long-term strength of Europe and its implications for plate-forming processes. Nature, 436(7049), 381–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, L., Song, K., & Hase, W. L. (2002). A SN2 reaction that avoids its deep potential energy minimum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5569), 875–878.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Evlyukhin, A. B., Eriksen, R. L., Cheng, W., Beermann, J., Reinhardt, C., Petrov, A., Prorok, S., Eich, M., Chichkov, B. N., & Bozhevolnyi, S. I. (2014). Optical spectroscopy of single Si nanocylinders with magnetic and electric resonances. Scientific Reports, 4, 4126.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ham, B. M. (2011). Proteomics of Biological Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Friedrich, K. (2005). Polymer Composites: From Nano- to Macro-Scale (S. Fakirov & Z. Zhang, Eds.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ermine, W., & Pittman, J. (2011). Nikan oti (the future): Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity in Two First Nations Communities. In W. Leal Filho (Ed.), The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change (pp. 69–80). 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

Andrews, R. (2015, October 15). Extraordinary Artificial Skin Can Transmit Sense Of Touch To Brain Cells. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/extraordinary-artificial-skin-can-transmit-sense-touch-brain-cells/

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. (1983). Need To Improve Management of ACDA’s Automatic Data Processing and Operations Analysis Functions (NSIAD-83-66). 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

DeMoss, M. D. (2010). Mapping the issues: A content analysis of elementary and secondary education news stories from 1968 to 2008 on television networks [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, August 11). CNN Fires Trump Booster Over Use of a Nazi Phrase. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Moore, 2005; Pérez-Gussinyé & Watts, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pérez-Gussinyé & Watts, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Evlyukhin et al., 2014)

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