How to format your references using the Potato Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Potato Research. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

McGlone M (2012) Paleontology. The hunters did it. Science 335:1452–1453

A journal article with 2 authors

Fischer J, Loss D (2009) Physics. Dealing with decoherence. Science 324:1277–1278

A journal article with 3 authors

Deana A, Celesnik H, Belasco JG (2008) The bacterial enzyme RppH triggers messenger RNA degradation by 5’ pyrophosphate removal. Nature 451:355–358

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Prabhakar S, Noonan JP, Pääbo S, Rubin EM (2006) Accelerated evolution of conserved noncoding sequences in humans. Science 314:786

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gee S (2014) Fraud and Fraud Detection. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Verma AK (2016) Reliability and Safety Engineering, 2nd ed. 2016. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Berthold MR (2012) From Patterns to Discoveries. In: Gaber MM (ed) Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–49

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 Potato Research.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) New Analysis Reveals Neanderthal Drug Use. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1989) Customs Automation: Internal Control Weaknesses in Customs’ Revenue Collection Process. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Naqvi SZ (2017) Around the world in 15 bites: Applied perspectives on learning about food. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Eligon J (2017) Family of Man Shot by Officer Settles Suit. New York Times A17

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (McGlone 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Fischer and Loss 2009; McGlone 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Fischer and Loss 2009)
Three or more authors: (Prabhakar et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Potato Research
Abbreviation	Potato Res.
ISSN (print)	0014-3065
ISSN (online)	1871-4528
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science