How to format your references using the St. Petersburg Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for St. Petersburg Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and 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]

D. Prosnitz, Science and law. WMD sensors--search and seizure, Science 310 (2005) 978.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Quist, I.H. Chapela, Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico, Nature 414 (2001) 541–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Wichterle, D. Gifford, E. Mazzoni, Neuroscience. Mapping neuronal diversity one cell at a time, Science 341 (2013) 726–727.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.H. Choi, E. Bylykbashi, Z.K. Chatila, S.W. Lee, B. Pulli, G.D. Clemenson, E. Kim, A. Rompala, M.K. Oram, C. Asselin, J. Aronson, C. Zhang, S.J. Miller, A. Lesinski, J.W. Chen, D.Y. Kim, H. van Praag, B.M. Spiegelman, F.H. Gage, R.E. Tanzi, Combined adult neurogenesis and BDNF mimic exercise effects on cognition in an Alzheimer’s mouse model, Science 361 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Golio, Engineering Your Retirement, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

M. Eiseltová, ed., Restoration of Lakes, Streams, Floodplains, and Bogs in Europe: Principles and Case Studies, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Zwikael, J. Smyrk, Starting a New Project, in: J. Smyrk (Ed.), Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value, Springer, London, 2011: pp. 135–180.

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 St. Petersburg Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Watch A Bowling Ball And Feather Falling In A Vacuum, IFLScience (2014).

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, NASA: Long-Term Commitment to and Investment in Space Exploration Program Requires More Knowledge, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.C. Couch, Providers’ Acceptance of Smartphone Applications as a Supportive Strategy for Adolescent Asthma, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2017.

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]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Estonia: Vodka Pipeline, New York Times (2004) A6.

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	St. Petersburg Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and Mathematics
ISSN (print)	2405-7223
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