How to format your references using the Sbornik: Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sbornik: Mathematics. 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]

Ashwell M 2000 Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000) Nature 406 844

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Greene C H and Pershing A J 2007 Oceans. Climate drives sea change Science 315 1084–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Davidson E M, Frothingham R and Cook-Deegan R 2007 Science and security. Practical experiences in dual-use review Science 316 1432–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bu L, Jiang X, Martin-Puig S, Caron L, Zhu S, Shao Y, Roberts D J, Huang P L, Domian I J and Chien K R 2009 Human ISL1 heart progenitors generate diverse multipotent cardiovascular cell lineages Nature 460 113–7

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hanby M 2013 No God, No Science? (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Timofeev V and Sanvitto D 2012 Exciton Polaritons in Microcavities: New Frontiers vol 172 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ahmed R and Boutaba R 2014 Availability Collaborative Web Hosting: Challenges and Research Directions SpringerBriefs in Computer Science ed R Boutaba (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 45–55

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 Sbornik: Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Researchers Make Significant Progress In The Development Of An Alzheimer’s Blood Test 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

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Government Accountability Office 2009 School Meal Programs: Experiences of the States and Districts That Eliminated Reduced-price Fees (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]

Watson D J 2010 How the Lead Systems Integrator Experience Should Enhance Efforts to Rebuild the Defense Acquisition Workforce Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington 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]

Rojas R and Harris E A 2015 Charge of Duct-Tape Assault at a School New York Times A29

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	Sbornik: Mathematics
Abbreviation	Russ. Acad. Sci. Sb. Math.
ISSN (print)	1064-5616
ISSN (online)	1468-4802
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory