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]

Kirkwood T B L 2008 A systematic look at an old problem Nature 451 644–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

LeRoy B J and Yankowitz M 2014 Physics. Emergent complex states in bilayer graphene Science 345 31–2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lindström N O, Hohenstein P and Davies J A 2013 Nephrons require Rho-kinase for proximal-distal polarity development Sci. Rep. 3 2692

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Hagleitner C, Hierlemann A, Lange D, Kummer A, Kerness N, Brand O and Baltes H 2001 Smart single-chip gas sensor microsystem Nature 414 293–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Weller R B, Hunter H J A and Mann M W 2014 Clinical Dermatology (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Elleithy K and Sobh T 2015 New Trends in Networking, Computing, E-learning, Systems Sciences, and Engineering vol 312 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Brusov P, Filatova T, Orekhova N and Eskindarov M 2015 New Mechanism of Formation of the Company’s Optimal Capital Structure, Different from Suggested by Trade-Off Theory Modern Corporate Finance, Investments and Taxation ed T Filatova, N Orekhova and M Eskindarov (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 73–92

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]

Davis J 2016 One-Third Of European Children Aged Six To Nine Now Overweight Or Obese 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 1993 DOD Computer Contracting: Inadequate Management Wasted Millions of Dollars (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]

Webster W P 2014 The Influence of Philanthropy and Administrative Decision-making Models on a Liberal Arts College’s Strategic Planning Process: A Case Study 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]

Greenhouse L 2006 Arizona’s Strict Approach to Insanity Defenses Gets a Hearing Before the Supreme Court New York Times A25

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