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

Egger J (2014) Refinement-cut: user-guided segmentation algorithm for translational science. Sci Rep 4:5164

A journal article with 2 authors

Neronov A, Vovk I (2010) Evidence for strong extragalactic magnetic fields from Fermi observations of TeV blazars. Science 328:73–75

A journal article with 3 authors

Jonsson GE, Miljkovic V, Dmitriev A (2014) Nanoplasmon-enabled macroscopic thermal management. Sci Rep 4:5111

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Weimerskirch H, Martin J, Clerquin Y, et al (2001) Energy saving in flight formation. Nature 413:697–698

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Manuele FA (2007) Advanced Safety Management Focusing on Z10 and Serious Injury Prevention. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hähnel S (ed) (2009) Inflammatory Diseases of the Brain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rieck K, Wahl S, Laskov P, et al (2008) A Self-learning System for Detection of Anomalous SIP Messages. In: Schulzrinne H, State R, Niccolini S (eds) Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications. Services and Security for Next Generation Networks: Second International Conference, IPTComm 2008, Heidelberg, Germany, July 1-2, 2008. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 90–106

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

Andrew D (2015) Watch The Fight Between A Mongoose And A Cobra. In: IFLScience. 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 (2001) International Trade: Concerns Over Biotechnology Challenge U.S. Agricultural Exports. 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

Hofmann TB (2008) Adductor and abductor spasmodic dysphonia: A comparison of quality of life issues for those receiving Botox treatment. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Walsh MW (2016) Puerto Rico’s Financial Woes Revive Calls for Independence. New York Times A9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Egger 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Neronov and Vovk 2010; Egger 2014).

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

Two authors: (Neronov and Vovk 2010)
Three or more authors: (Weimerskirch et al. 2001)

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