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

Hanson B: Light on the origin of man. Ardipithecus ramidus. Introduction. Science 2009;326:60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padhi A, Ma L: Genetic and epidemiological insights into the emergence of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) across Asia and Africa. Sci Rep 2014;4:7040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnarez C, Marrink SJ, Periole X: Identification of cardiolipin binding sites on cytochrome c oxidase at the entrance of proton channels. Sci Rep 2013;3:1263.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brawand D, Soumillon M, Necsulea A, Julien P, Csárdi G, Harrigan P, et al.: The evolution of gene expression levels in mammalian organs. Nature 2011;478:343–348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perlmutter DD, Rothstein RL: The Challenge of Climate Change, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010.

An edited book

Maschinski J, Haskins KE, Raven PH, editors: Plant Reintroduction in a Changing Climate: Promises and Perils, Washington, DC, Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Wen J-C, Huang S-Y, Lin C-F, Hsu C-C, Chen W-N: Typhoon Morakot and Institutional Changes in Taiwan; in Shaw R (ed): Disaster Recovery: Used or Misused Development Opportunity. Tokyo, Springer Japan, 2014, pp 61–75.

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: Human Spaceflight Launches Will Return to the United States [Internet]. IFLScience 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/human-spaceflight-launches-will-return-united-states/

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: Review of FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative as Mandated in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Renteria Y: Respite services for post-adoption families transitioning from the child welfare system: A grant proposal 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

Jacoby S: Keep the Gates of Paradise Open. New York Times 2013;SR9.

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