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

Sibum, H. O. (2004). Beyond the ivory tower. What kind of science is experimental physics? Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5693), 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beller, S., & Bender, A. (2008). The limits of counting: numerical cognition between evolution and culture. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 213–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rawson, P. D., Yund, P. O., & Lindsay, S. M. (2007). Comment on “Divergent induced responses to an invasive predator in marine mussel populations.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5821), 53; author reply 53.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Richter, D. D., Jr, Jenkins, D. H., Karakash, J. T., Knight, J., McCreery, L. R., & Nemestothy, K. P. (2009). Resource policy. Wood energy in America. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5920), 1432–1433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pollak, P. (2011). Fine Chemicals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Baranzini, A., Ramirez, J., Schaerer, C., & Thalmann, P. (Eds.). (2008). Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets: Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pagneux, V. (2013). Trapped Modes and Edge Resonances in Acoustics and Elasticity. In R. V. Craster & J. Kaplunov (Eds.), Dynamic Localization Phenomena in Elasticity, Acoustics and Electromagnetism (pp. 181–223). Vienna: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, November 12). Cougars Could Repopulate Midwestern U.S. In Just 25 Years. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cougars-could-repopulate-midwestern-us-just-25-years/. 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. (1967). Comments on Legality of NASA Contracts (No. B-133394). 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

Stewart, D. A. (2013). Principals’ post-observation feedback and its influence on teacher professional growth at two Southern California Catholic high schools (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Mueller, B., Wang, V., & Piccoli, S. (2017, July 15). 3 Men From Shelter Held in Sexual Assault on Woman Leaving Church. New York Times, p. A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sibum 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Beller and Bender 2008; Sibum 2004).

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

Two authors: (Beller and Bender 2008)
Three or more authors: (Richter et al. 2009)

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