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

Bromm, V. (2007). Astronomy. From darkness to light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5844), 1511–1512.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiens, D. A., & Snider, N. O. (2001). Repeating deep earthquakes: evidence for fault reactivation at great depth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5534), 1463–1466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohl, F. W., Scheich, H., & Freeman, W. J. (2001). Change in pattern of ongoing cortical activity with auditory category learning. Nature, 412(6848), 733–736.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yan, H., Yu, H., Xing, W., Xiao, Y., Zhang, H., Pei, L., et al. (2014). Development of a proficiency testing program for the HIV-1 BED incidence assay in China. Scientific reports, 4, 4512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hermans, J., & Lentz, B. (2013). Equilibria and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ware, G. W., Whitacre, D. M., & Gunther, F. A. (Eds.). (2007). Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews (Vol. 190). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chou, C.-P. (2013). The Greatest Event in Life, A Farce in One Act. In Chih-P’ing Chou (Ed.), English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society (Volume 1) (pp. 33–39). 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

Luntz, S. (2017, March 29). Knowing Names Makes Cooperation More Likely. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/knowing-names-makes-cooperation-more-likely/. 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. (1987). Reports Issued in October 1987 (No. 134487). 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

Henderson, R. (2010). The effect of Interactive Metronome training on sports confidence and putting performance (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

Miller, S. (2017, May 25). Tennis Stars on Steroids? It’s Make Believe, Right? New York Times, p. B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bromm 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bromm 2007; Wiens and Snider 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wiens and Snider 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al. 2014)

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

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