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

Ramamurthi, K.S.: Molecular biology. mRNA delivers the goods. Science. 331, 1021–1022 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Alabugin, I., Mohamed, R.K.: Chemistry. A CO₂ cloak for the cyanide dagger. Science. 344, 45–46 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Krishnan, M., Ugaz, V.M., Burns, M.A.: PCR in a Rayleigh-Bénard convection cell. Science. 298, 793 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coull, J.A.M., Boudreau, D., Bachand, K., Prescott, S.A., Nault, F., Sík, A., De Koninck, P., De Koninck, Y.: Trans-synaptic shift in anion gradient in spinal lamina I neurons as a mechanism of neuropathic pain. Nature. 424, 938–942 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ytterdal, T., Cheng, Y., Fjeldly, T.A.: Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2003)

An edited book

Rossi, F., Mavelli, F., Stano, P., Caivano, D. eds: Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Systems Chemistry: 10th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2015, Bari, Italy, September 22-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Gollub, T., Busse, M., Stein, B., Hagen, M.: Keyqueries for Clustering and Labeling. In: Ma, S., Wen, J.-R., Liu, Y., Dou, Z., Zhang, M., Chang, Y., and Zhao, X. (eds.) Information Retrieval Technology: 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2016, Beijing, China, November 30 – December 2, 2016, Proceedings. pp. 42–55. 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

Evans, K.: Forget What You Heard: Jupiter Does Not Orbit The Sun

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: Armored Systems Modernization: Program Inconsistent With Current Threat and Budgetary Constraints. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mersch, C.: Campus-based drunk-driving intervention program: A grant proposal project, (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

Brantley, B.: A Lesson on Slavery With Bite and No Mercy, (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

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