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

Wright G: Perspective: Synthetic biology revives antibiotics. Nature 2014;509:S13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petersen J, Hagan IM: Polo kinase links the stress pathway to cell cycle control and tip growth in fission yeast. Nature 2005;435:507–512.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin NJ, Wright SP, Eichenbaum H: Recollection-like memory retrieval in rats is dependent on the hippocampus. Nature 2004;431:188–191.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang X, Weng W, Xu W, Wang Y, Yu W, Tang X, et al.: Role of Bcl-2 -938 C>A polymorphism in susceptibility and prognosis of cancer: a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 2014;4:7241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Egan WF: Advanced Frequency Synthesis by Phase Lock, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Kühne T, editor: Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2006, Genoa, Italy, October 1-6, 2006, Reports and Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Kidd E, Grigsby P: The Use of Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging for Image-Guided Therapy; in Viswanathan AN, Kirisits C, Erickson BE, Pötter R (eds): Gynecologic Radiation Therapy: Novel Approaches to Image-Guidance and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2011, pp 41–48.

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

Hamilton K: Psychotextiles Could Be Next Big Thing In Fabrics [Internet]. IFLScience 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychotextiles-could-be-next-big-thing-in-fabrics/

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: Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No.4, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kao CH: Community mental health care for Chinese Americans: A grant proposal 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

Feeney K: Cafeteria Fare, Korean-Style. New York Times 2010;NJ8.

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