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

Hartzell, H.C.: Cell biology. The stress of relaxation. Science. 317, 1331–1332 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kent, D.V., Tauxe, L.: Corrected Late Triassic latitudes for continents adjacent to the North Atlantic. Science. 307, 240–244 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lazzerini, G.M., Strambini, L.M., Barillaro, G.: Addressing reliability and degradation of chemitransistor sensors by electrical tuning of the sensitivity. Sci. Rep. 3, 1161 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Okada, A., Charron, F., Morin, S., Shin, D.S., Wong, K., Fabre, P.J., Tessier-Lavigne, M., McConnell, S.K.: Boc is a receptor for sonic hedgehog in the guidance of commissural axons. Nature. 444, 369–373 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moir, I., Seabridge, A.G.: Military Avionics Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2006)

An edited book

Sadowski, T. ed: IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Modelling of Damage and Fracture Processes in Composite Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 23–27 May 2005. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Croft, H.: Rethinking Civilian Neuroses in the Second World War. In: Leese, P. and Crouthamel, J. (eds.) Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After. pp. 95–116. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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

Andrew, E.: Born to Win: Top Athletes Don’t Share a Single Talent Gene, but Hundreds of Them, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/born-win-top-athletes-don-t-share-single-talent-gene-hundreds-them/

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: Success of the Programed School Input Program Justifies Expansion. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ryan, B.A.: Computer-Based Versus Paper-Pencil Modes of Administration United States Government End of Course Exams: Student Cumulative Grade Point Averages as Predictors of Success, (2012)

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

Dorman, J.L.: A C.E.O. Looks to Grow Boutique Hotels in Europe, (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