How to format your references using the Russian Linguistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Russian Linguistics. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Eisenberg, L. (2000). Seymour S. Kety (1915-2000). Nature, 406(6795), 472.
A journal article with 2 authors
McPherson, M. S., & Schapiro, M. O. (2003). Education. Funding roller coaster for public higher education. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5648), 1157.
A journal article with 3 authors
Rhew, R. C., Miller, B. R., & Weiss, R. F. (2000). Natural methyl bromide and methyl chloride emissions from coastal salt marshes. Nature, 403(6767), 292–295.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Qu, T., Yang, K., Han, X., Wu, S., Huang, Y., & Luo, H. (2014). Design of a superluminal ring laser gyroscope using multilayer optical coatings with huge group delay. Scientific reports, 4, 7098.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Alberty, R. A. (2006). Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathmatica. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Markopoulos, P., Martens, J.-B., Malins, J., Coninx, K., & Liapis, A. (Eds.). (2016). Collaboration in Creative Design: Methods and Tools. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Martignoni, L., Stinson, E., Fredrikson, M., Jha, S., & Mitchell, J. C. (2008). A Layered Architecture for Detecting Malicious Behaviors. In R. Lippmann, E. Kirda, & A. Trachtenberg (Eds.), Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 11th International Symposium, RAID 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 15-17, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 78–97). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Linguistics.

Blog post
Carpineti, A. (2017, March 3). NASA Jokingly Asked The Internet To Name Trappist-1 Planets And It Did Not Disappoint. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-jokingly-asked-the-internet-to-name-trappist1-planets-and-it-did-not-disappoint/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2007). NASA: Challenges in Completing and Sustaining the International Space Station (No. GAO-07-1121T). 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
Simsic, G. (2012). Revisiting Addiction Using Depth Psychology: The Myth of Exodus as a Blueprint for Recovery (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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
Gustines, G. G. (2011, December 30). Leaping Off the Pages in the Himalayas. New York Times, p. C27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenberg 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenberg 2000; McPherson and Schapiro 2003).

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

  • Two authors: (McPherson and Schapiro 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Qu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleRussian Linguistics
AbbreviationRuss. Linguist.
ISSN (print)0304-3487
ISSN (online)1572-8714
ScopeLanguage and Linguistics
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Linguistics and Language

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