How to format your references using the Potential Analysis citation style

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

Buchenau, J.: Global Darwin: Multicultural mergers. Nature. 462, 284–285 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kruse, E., Agol, E.: KOI-3278: a self-lensing binary star system. Science. 344, 275–277 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunn, E.W., Aknin, L.B., Norton, M.I.: Spending money on others promotes happiness. Science. 319, 1687–1688 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xie, W.-Z., Yan, C., Ying, X.-Y., Zhu, S.-Y., Shi, H.-S., Wang, Y., Cheung, E.F.C., Chan, R.C.K.: Domain-specific hedonic deficits towards social affective but not monetary incentives in social anhedonia. Sci. Rep. 4, 4056 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saksena, F.B.: Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Gilmore, W.J.: Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional. Apress, Berkeley, CA (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Mauw, S., van Vessem, I., Bos, B.: Forward Secure Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Clark, J.A., Paige, R.F., Polack, F.A.C., and Brooke, P.J. (eds.) Security in Pervasive Computing: Third International Conference, SPC 2006, York, UK, April 18-21, 2006. Proceedings. pp. 32–42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

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 Potential Analysis.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.: Turning Atmospheric CO2 Into Carbon Nanofibers Could Reduce Global Warming, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/method-removing-carbon-dioxide-air-could-return-us-pre-industrial-revolution-co2-levels/

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: Commerce Information Technology Solutions Next Generation Governmentwide Acquisition Contract. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grimpo, M.: How asthma is related with the rate of influenza vaccination in California’s children, (2014)

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

Nir, S.M., Surico, J.: Three Shots and an Officer Down: Gripping Testimony in Queens, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Potential Analysis
Abbreviation	Potential Anal.
ISSN (print)	0926-2601
ISSN (online)	1572-929X
Scope	Analysis