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

Trivedi, B. P. (2014). Neuroscience: Dissecting appetite. Nature, 508(7496), S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frenking, G., & Holzmann, N. (2012). Chemistry. A boron-boron triple bond. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6087), 1394–1395.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benton, R., Vannice, K. S., & Vosshall, L. B. (2007). An essential role for a CD36-related receptor in pheromone detection in Drosophila. Nature, 450(7167), 289–293.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wagers, A. J., Sherwood, R. I., Christensen, J. L., & Weissman, I. L. (2002). Little evidence for developmental plasticity of adult hematopoietic stem cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5590), 2256–2259.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Putt, A. (2006). Putt’s Law & the Successful Technocrat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Posada de la Paz, M., & Groft, S. C. (Eds.). (2010). Rare Diseases Epidemiology (Vol. 686). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kokilashvili, V., Meskhi, A., Rafeiro, H., & Samko, S. (2016). One-sided Operators. In A. Meskhi, H. Rafeiro, & S. Samko (Eds.), Integral Operators in Non-Standard Function Spaces: Volume 1: Variable Exponent Lebesgue and Amalgam Spaces (pp. 297–354). 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. (2015, September 8). Human-Chimp Ancestor Was Similar To Modern African Apes. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/human-chimp-ancestor-was-similar-modern-african-apes/. 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. (1992). Tax Systems Modernization: IRS’ Use of Consultants to Do the TMAC Price/Technical Tradeoff Analysis (No. IMTEC-93-4BR). 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

Moreno, S. (2009). Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children (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

Belson, K. (2014, August 11). Coaxing Fire and Police Staffs in Arizona to Cut Own Pensions. New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trivedi 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Frenking and Holzmann 2012; Trivedi 2014).

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

Two authors: (Frenking and Holzmann 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wagers et al. 2002)

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