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]

McKee M 2012 Sally Ride (1951-2012) Nature 488 460

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Macnaghten P and Owen R 2011 Environmental science: good governance for geoengineering Nature 479 293

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Duan Q, Goodale E and Quan R-C 2014 Bird fruit preferences match the frequency of fruit colours in tropical Asia Sci. Rep. 4 5627

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Zhu X, Saito S, Kemp A, Kakuyanagi K, Karimoto S-I, Nakano H, Munro W J, Tokura Y, Everitt M S, Nemoto K, Kasu M, Mizuochi N and Semba K 2011 Coherent coupling of a superconducting flux qubit to an electron spin ensemble in diamond Nature 478 221–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Warren A E A, Lerner R M and Phelps E 2011 Thriving and Spirituality Among Youth (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Stahl U, Donalies U E B and Nevoigt E 2008 Food Biotechnology vol 111 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Durret F, Kaastra J S, Nevalainen J, Ohashi T and Werner N 2008 Soft X-Ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Excess Emission from Clusters of Galaxies Clusters of Galaxies: Beyond the Thermal View ed J Kaastra (New York, NY: Springer) pp 51–70

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 Giant Alien-Like “Shrimp” Caught Off Florida Is Identified 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 1973 Protest of NASA Contract Award (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]

Smith J 2012 The work expectations of individuals with developmental disabilities 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]

Gorman J 2016 Your Dog Remembers More Than You Think New York Times D6

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