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

Chisholm SW (2000) Stirring times in the Southern Ocean. Nature 407:685–687

A journal article with 2 authors

Shin D, Cho K-H (2013) Recurrent connections form a phase-locking neuronal tuner for frequency-dependent selective communication. Sci Rep 3:2519

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonezawa H, Aoki T, Furusawa A (2004) Demonstration of a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables. Nature 431:430–433

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Masgrau L, Roujeinikova A, Johannissen LO, et al (2006) Atomic description of an enzyme reaction dominated by proton tunneling. Science 312:237–241

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bottomley GE (2011) Channel Equalization for Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Suresh S (2013) Supervised Learning with Complex-valued Neural Networks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Feng P, Ju T, Warren J (2010) Piecewise Tri-linear Contouring for Multi-material Volumes. In: Mourrain B, Schaefer S, Xu G (eds) Advances in Geometric Modeling and Processing: 6th International Conference, GMP 2010, Castro Urdiales, Spain, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–56

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

Hamilton K (2015) The Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks TONIGHT. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-cinco-de-mayo/. 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 (2011) On-the-Job Training: Federal Highway Administration Needs to Strengthen Program Assessment. 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

Frederique NP (2010) The effectiveness of school based intensive probation for reducing recidivism: An evaluation of Maryland’s Spotlight on Schools program. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Poniewozik J (2016) Mom Started a Job, So Dad Is Nervous About All His New Responsibilities. New York Times C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chisholm 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chisholm 2000; Shin and Cho 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shin and Cho 2013)
Three or more authors: (Masgrau et al. 2006)

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