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

Karnik, R.N.: Materials science: Breakthrough for protons. Nature. 516, 173–175 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Eichler, E.E., Sankoff, D.: Structural dynamics of eukaryotic chromosome evolution. Science. 301, 793–797 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Sempere, T., Hartley, A., Roperch, P.: Comment on “Rapid uplift of the Altiplano revealed through 13C-18O bonds in paleosol carbonates.” Science. 314, 760; author reply 760 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Eldar, A., Chary, V.K., Xenopoulos, P., Fontes, M.E., Losón, O.C., Dworkin, J., Piggot, P.J., Elowitz, M.B.: Partial penetrance facilitates developmental evolution in bacteria. Nature. 460, 510–514 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koepsell, D.: Who Owns You? John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Murali, R. ed: Graphene Nanoelectronics: From Materials to Circuits. Springer US, Boston, MA (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Ellingsæter, A.L.: Nordic Politicization of Parenthood: Unfolding Hybridization? In: Richter, M. and Andresen, S. (eds.) The Politicization of Parenthood: Shifting private and public responsibilities in education and child rearing. pp. 39–53. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (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.: Scientists Discover New Kind Of Sexual Organ, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-new-kind-sexual-organ/

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: Information Technology: HUD Can Take Additional Actions to Improve Its Governance. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2014)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Khojandi, N.: Investigating Secondary Infections and their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System, (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

St. John Kelly, E.: Whose Hat?, (1997)

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

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