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:

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

Guo, Q. (2005). Plant communities: ecosystem maturity and performance. Nature, 435(7045), E6; discussion E6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pastinen, T., & Hudson, T. J. (2004). Cis-acting regulatory variation in the human genome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5696), 647–650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arantes-Oliveira, N., Berman, J. R., & Kenyon, C. (2003). Healthy animals with extreme longevity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5645), 611.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

McMahon, A., Supatto, W., Fraser, S. E., & Stathopoulos, A. (2008). Dynamic analyses of Drosophila gastrulation provide insights into collective cell migration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5907), 1546–1550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, S., & Liu, Y. (2011). Modeling and Simulation for Microelectronic Packaging Assembly. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Mor, Y., Mellar, H., Warburton, S., & Winters, N. (Eds.). (2014). Practical Design Patterns for Teaching and Learning with Technology. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Kubicek, J., Penhaker, M., Pavelova, K., Selamat, A., Hudak, R., & Majernik, J. (2015). Segmentation of MRI Data to Extract the Blood Vessels Based on Fuzzy Thresholding. In D. Barbucha, N. T. Nguyen, & J. Batubara (Eds.), New Trends in Intelligent Information and Database Systems (pp. 43–52). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, September 15). Did ‘Rising Star’ Shine Too Bright? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/did-rising-star-shine-too-bright/. 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. (2005). Freight Transportation: Short Sea Shipping Option Shows Importance of Systematic Approach to Public Investment Decisions (No. GAO-05-768). 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

Nesbit, P. R. (2014). Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and Structure from Motion: A fresh approach to photogrammetry (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

(nyt), S. K. (2005, February 17). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Blast In Dagestan Kills 3. New York Times, p. A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guo 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Guo 2005; Pastinen and Hudson 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pastinen and Hudson 2004)
Three or more authors: (McMahon et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Russian Linguistics
Abbreviation	Russ. Linguist.
ISSN (print)	0304-3487
ISSN (online)	1572-8714
Scope	Language and Linguistics Developmental and Educational Psychology Linguistics and Language