How to format your references using the Russian Mathematical Surveys citation style

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

[1]

Atkinson P M 2014 Assess the real cost of research assessment Nature 516 145

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hertzfeld H R and Pace S N 2013 Space law. International cooperation on human lunar heritage Science 342 1049–50

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schön J H, Kloc C and Batlogg B 2000 Fractional quantum Hall effect in organic molecular semiconductors Science 288 2338–40

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Quattrocchi C C, Huang C, Niu S, Sheldon M, Benhayon D, Cartwright J Jr, Mosier D R, Keller F and D’Arcangelo G 2003 Reelin promotes peripheral synapse elimination and maturation Science 301 649–53

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ersoy O K 2007 Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Fanciulli M 2009 Electron Spin Resonance and Related Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Structures vol 115 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Muraoka T, Watanabe Y and Kanosue K 2015 Intra- and Inter-person Coordinated Movements of Fingers and Toes Sports Performance ed K Kanosue, T Nagami and J Tsuchiya (Tokyo: Springer Japan) pp 37–48

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 Mathematical Surveys.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J 2015 We Could Soon Prove If Life Began Outside The Solar System Or Not IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1994 Joint Simulation Training (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

[1]

Skiold-Hanlin S 2015 Functional and Ecological Aspects of the Mucus Trails of the Freshwater Gastropod Elimia potosiensis Doctoral dissertation (Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University)

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

[1]

Poniewozik J 2017 Keeping It Real, the TV Version New York Times C1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Russian Mathematical Surveys
Abbreviation	Russ. Math. Surv.
ISSN (print)	0036-0279
ISSN (online)	1468-4829
Scope	General Mathematics