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

Caldecott, K. W. (2003). Cell signaling. The BRCT domain: signaling with friends? Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5645), 579–580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, M., & Izpisua Belmonte, J. C. (2014). Ageing: Genetic rejuvenation of old muscle. Nature, 506(7488), 304–305.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huynh, W. U., Dittmer, J. J., & Alivisatos, A. P. (2002). Hybrid nanorod-polymer solar cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5564), 2425–2427.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Y., Van Hooser, S. D., Mazurek, M., White, L. E., & Fitzpatrick, D. (2008). Experience with moving visual stimuli drives the early development of cortical direction selectivity. Nature, 456(7224), 952–956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perini, K., & Sabbion, P. (2017). Urban Sustainability and River Restoration. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Schlechtriem, P. (2009). UN Law on International Sales: The UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (P. Butler, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Monaghan, C. (2015). Changing the Prism. In Z. Gross & L. Davies (Eds.), The Contested Role of Education in Conflict and Fragility (pp. 63–81). SensePublishers.

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

Hale, T. (2016, December 30). The Coolest New Animal Species Discovered In 2016. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-coolest-new-animal-species-discovered-in-2016/

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. (1985). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Broadcast Policies and Practices and the Board for International Broadcasting Oversight of Radio Programming (126571). 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

Nersessian, N. (2012). Modified gravity with scale invariance and implications [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

Becker, J. O., Apuzzo, M., & Goldman, A. (2017, July 9). Trump Team Met Russian Offering Dirt on Clinton. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caldecott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Caldecott, 2003; Li & Izpisua Belmonte, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li & Izpisua Belmonte, 2014)
Three authors: (Huynh et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2008)

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