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

Dolgin, Elie. 2011. Research technique: the murine candidate. Nature 474: S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harms, Michael J., and Joseph W. Thornton. 2014. Historical contingency and its biophysical basis in glucocorticoid receptor evolution. Nature 512: 203–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaib, Nathan A., Sean N. Raymond, and Martin Duncan. 2013. Planetary system disruption by Galactic perturbations to wide binary stars. Nature 493: 381–384.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Keung, Albert J., Meimei Dong, David V. Schaffer, and Sanjay Kumar. 2013. Pan-neuronal maturation but not neuronal subtype differentiation of adult neural stem cells is mechanosensitive. Scientific reports 3: 1817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choudhry, Moorad, and Gino Landuyt. 2010. The Future of Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhang, Joy Ying, Jarek Wilkiewicz, and Ani Nahapetian, ed. 2012. Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: Third International Conference, MobiCASE 2011, Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 24-27, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 95. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dianteill, Erwam. 2005. Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of religion: A central and peripheral concern. In After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration, ed. David L. Swartz and Vera L. Zolberg, 65–85. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Predatory ‘Glow Worm’ Discovered In Peruvian Rainforest. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 19.

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. 1990. Savings Opportunity for the United States Mint’s Promotional Mailings. T-GGD-90-34. 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

Purnell, Courtney Paschal. 2012. Exploring teachers’ perceptions of professional development in virtual learning teams. Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Protess, Ben. 2017. Law Firm Stocks Ranks With Ex-Federal Officials. New York Times, April 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dolgin 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dolgin 2011; Harms and Thornton 2014).

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

Two authors: (Harms and Thornton 2014)
Three or more authors: (Keung et al. 2013)

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