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

Aiken, C.: HIV: Antiviral action countered by Nef. Nature. 526, 202–203 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Miles, L., Kapos, V.: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: global land-use implications. Science. 320, 1454–1455 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, J.E., Melosh, H.J., Greenberg, R.: Impact-induced seismic activity on asteroid 433 Eros: a surface modification process. Science. 306, 1526–1529 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zaiss, D.M., Yang, L., Shah, P.R., Kobie, J.J., Urban, J.F., Mosmann, T.R.: Amphiregulin, a TH2 cytokine enhancing resistance to nematodes. Science. 314, 1746 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lehman, R., McMillan, L.G.: Options for Volatile Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Hartstein, M.E., Wulc, A.E., Holck, D.E.E. eds: Midfacial Rejuvenation. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Nolte, A., Prilla, M.: Normal Users Cooperating on Process Models: Is It Possible at All? In: Herskovic, V., Hoppe, H.U., Jansen, M., and Ziegler, J. (eds.) Collaboration and Technology: 18th International Conference, CRIWG 2012 Raesfeld, Germany, September 16-19, 2012 Proceedings. pp. 57–72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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.: We Transformed Living Cells Into Tiny Lasers, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/we-transformed-living-cells-tiny-lasers/

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: Small Business Administration: Better Planning and Controls Needed for Information Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blankenship, K.: An Analysis of Illinois Public School Funding a Descriptive Comparison of Equity: 2005 v. 2015, (2017)

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, M.W.: As Puerto Rico Defaults, Eyes Turn to Washington, (2016)

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