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]

Crabtree R H 2007 Chemistry. No protection required Science 318 756–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Heyes C M and Frith C D 2014 The cultural evolution of mind reading Science 344 1243091

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mustard J F, Cooper C D and Rifkin M K 2001 Evidence for recent climate change on Mars from the identification of youthful near-surface ground ice Nature 412 411–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Sartori A A, Lukas C, Coates J, Mistrik M, Fu S, Bartek J, Baer R, Lukas J and Jackson S P 2007 Human CtIP promotes DNA end resection Nature 450 509–14

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Birke D 2013 Social Networks and their Economics (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Stein M and Sandl P 2012 Information Ergonomics: A theoretical approach and practical experience in transportation (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aron I D, Leventhal D H and Sellmann M 2006 A Totally Unimodular Description of the Consistent Value Polytope for Binary Constraint Programming Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems: Third International Conference, CPAIOR 2006, Cork, Ireland, May 31 - June 2, 2006. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed J C Beck and B M Smith (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 16–28

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]

Andrew D 2015 Watch A Shark And An Octopus Battle 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 1996 Aviation Acquisition: A Comprehensive Strategy Is Needed for Cultural Change at FAA (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]

Singh A 2017 Improving the Usability of Typometric Solutions Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Kelly M 1992 THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: News Analysis; The Center of Attention New York Times A1

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