How to format your references using the International Journal of Primatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Primatology. 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

Lewis, R. (2008). A career at the museum. Nature, 451(7175), 218.

A journal article with 2 authors

Munshi, N. V., & Olson, E. N. (2014). Translational medicine. Improving cardiac rhythm with a biological pacemaker. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6194), 268–269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gnone, G., Moriconi, T., & Gambini, G. (2006). Sleep behaviour: activity and sleep in dolphins. Nature, 441(7096), E10-1; discussion E11.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hole, J. A., Catchings, R. D., St Clair, K. C., Rymer, M. J., Okaya, D. A., & Carney, B. J. (2001). Steep-dip seismic imaging of the shallow San Andreas fault near Parkfield. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5546), 1513–1515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Chartered Institute of Building. (2008). Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Goin, F. (2016). A Brief History of South American Metatherians: Evolutionary Contexts and Intercontinental Dispersals. (M. Woodburne, A. N. Zimicz, G. M. Martin, & L. Chornogubsky, Eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Chauvicourt, F., Orlando, S., Desmet, W., Gyselinck, J. J. C., & Faria, C. T. (2016). Experimental Study on the Impact of the Number of Laminas on the Dynamics Behavior of an Electric Machine Stator. In M. Mains (Ed.), Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016 (pp. 73–79). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 International Journal of Primatology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, November 19). Gigantic Landslide Was Bigger Than Rhode Island. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/gigantic-ancient-landslide-was-bigger-rhode-island/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1988). Aviation Security: Improved Controls Needed To Prevent Unauthorized Access at Key Airports (No. RCED-88-86). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lindeboom, T. N. (2014). A new home for transitioning youth: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hubbard, B. (2016, October 30). Airstrikes Kill Dozens in Western Yemen. New York Times, p. A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lewis 2008; Munshi and Olson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Munshi and Olson 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hole et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Primatology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Primatol.
ISSN (print)	0164-0291
ISSN (online)	1573-8604
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics