How to format your references using the American Journal of Potato Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Potato Research. 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

de Gennes, P. G. 2001. Ultradivided matter. Nature 412: 385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, Hao, and Markus R. Owen. 2013. Damped propagation of cell polarization explains distinct PCP phenotypes of epithelial patterning. Scientific reports 3: 2528.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kraft, Nathan J. B., Renato Valencia, and David D. Ackerly. 2008. Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 580–582.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li, Z. Y., N. P. Young, M. Di Vece, S. Palomba, R. E. Palmer, A. L. Bleloch, B. C. Curley, R. L. Johnston, J. Jiang, and J. Yuan. 2008. Three-dimensional atomic-scale structure of size-selected gold nanoclusters. Nature 451: 46–48.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Assing, Dominique, and Stéphane Calé. 2013. Mobile Access Safety. Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ah-King, Malin, ed. 2013. Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology. Vol. 1. Crossroads of Knowledge. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Luenberger, David G., and Yinyu Ye. 2016. Duality and Complementarity. In Linear and Nonlinear Programming, ed. Yinyu Ye, 83–114. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 American Journal of Potato Research.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2017. This Sightless Invertebrate Is Probably Doing More To Fight Climate Change Than You. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 3.

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

Government Accountability Office. 2013. Aviation: Status of DOT’s Actions to Address the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee’s Recommendations. GAO-13-657. 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

Griffin, Mary Gayle. 2008. The lived experience of first line managers during planned organizational change: A phenomenological study of one firm in the residential construction industry. 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

Feeney, Kelly. 2009. If It’s on a Bun, It’s a Burger. New York Times, October 11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (de Gennes 2001).
This sentence cites two references (de Gennes 2001; Zhu and Owen 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zhu and Owen 2013)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Potato Research
Abbreviation	Am. J. Potato Res.
ISSN (print)	1099-209X
ISSN (online)	1874-9380
Scope	Plant Science