How to format your references using the Potato Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Abbott A (2000) One for all--and all for one. Nature 405:728

A journal article with 2 authors

Bezemer TM, van der Putten WH (2007) Ecology: diversity and stability in plant communities. Nature 446:E6-7; discussion E7-8

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang Z, Chakrabarty D, Kaplan DL (2006) A debris disk around an isolated young neutron star. Nature 440:772–775

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huang X, Zhao J, Su Y, et al (2014) Design of three-shell icosahedral matryoshka clusters A@B₁₂@A2₂₀ (A = Sn, Pb; B = Mg, Zn, Cd, Mn). Sci Rep 4:6915

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruske W (1971) Verlag Chemie 1921-1971. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Kamae K (ed) (2016) Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident, 1st ed. 2016. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Loog M (2012) Semi-supervised Linear Discriminant Analysis Using Moment Constraints. In: Schwenker F, Trentin E (eds) Partially Supervised Learning: First IAPR TC3 Workshop, PSL 2011, Ulm, Germany, September 15-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 32–41

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 Potato Research.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Astronomers Find Quasars Are “Aligned” Across Billions Of Light-Years. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/quasars-across-billions-light-years-align-each-other/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2002) Marine Transportation: Federal Financing and an Infrastructure Investment Framework. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Funderburk J (2010) Modern Variation in Predation Intensity: Constraints on Assessing Predator-Prey Relationships in Paleoecologic Reconstructions. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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 K (2009) Fire Up the Grill. New York Times NJ8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2000; Bezemer and van der Putten 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bezemer and van der Putten 2007)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Potato Research
Abbreviation	Potato Res.
ISSN (print)	0014-3065
ISSN (online)	1871-4528
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science