How to format your references using the Folia Primatologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Folia Primatologica. 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	Download the output style file
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

Benton TG: Ecology. Managing farming’s footprint on biodiversity. Science 2007;315:341–342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long F, Shi H: Simple and compact optode for real-time in-situ temperature detection in very small samples. Sci Rep 2014;4:5009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meloso D, Copic J, Bossaerts P: Promoting intellectual discovery: patents versus markets. Science 2009;323:1335–1339.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Butterfield GL, Lajoie MJ, Gustafson HH, Sellers DL, Nattermann U, Ellis D, et al.: Evolution of a designed protein assembly encapsulating its own RNA genome. Nature 2017;552:415–420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubé J, Legros D: Spatial Econometrics Using Microdata, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

Chapman MD, Haar M, editors: Pathways for Ecclesial Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century: Revisiting Ecumenical Method, New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kharrazi M, Sencar HT, Memon N: Improving Steganalysis by Fusion Techniques: A Case Study with Image Steganography; in Shi YQ (ed): Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security I. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2006, pp 123–137.

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 Folia Primatologica.

Blog post

Andrew E: Molecules Harness Sun’s Energy, Even in Absence of Sunlight [Internet]. IFLScience 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/molecules-harness-sun’s-energy-even-absence-sunlight/

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: Battlefield Automation: Status of the Army Command and Control System Program, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schulz JL: Factors Affecting Prey Availability and Habitat Usage of Wintering Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) in Coastal Louisiana 2015;

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

Kelly C: For the Stressed Business Owner, a Range of Pursuits to Revive the Spirit. New York Times 2009;B7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Folia Primatologica
Abbreviation	Folia Primatol. (Basel)
ISSN (print)	0015-5713
ISSN (online)	1421-9980
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics