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

Mueller, K. L. (2015). Cancer immunology and immunotherapy. Realizing the promise. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6230), 54–55.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karels, T. J., & Boonstra, R. (2000). Concurrent density dependence and independence in populations of arctic ground squirrels. Nature, 408(6811), 460–463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Tonder, G. J., Lyons, M. J., & Ejima, Y. (2002). Visual structure of a Japanese Zen garden. Nature, 419(6905), 359–360.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lu, H., Wang, C.-A., Huang, Y., & Xie, H. (2014). Multi-enhanced-phonon scattering modes in Ln-Me-A sites co-substituted LnMeA11O19 ceramics. Scientific reports, 4, 6823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad, S. R., & Cartwright, M. (2014). Laser Ignition of Energetic Materials. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

White, M. A., & Murray, A. S. (Eds.). (2015). Evidence-Based Approaches in Positive Education: Implementing a Strategic Framework for Well-being in Schools. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bangerter, E. (2006). A Cryptographic Framework for the Controlled Release of Certified Data (Transcript of Discussion). In B. Christianson, B. Crispo, J. A. Malcolm, & M. Roe (Eds.), Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 26-28, 2004. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 43–50). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 29). How Re-Analysing The Data Of Scientific Research Can Change The Findings. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-re-analysing-data-scientific-research-can-change-findings/. 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. (1973). Educational Laboratory and Research and Development Center Programs Need To Be Strengthened (No. B-164031(1)). 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

Moro, J. M. (2017). School Improvement Grants at Work: A Study of Urban, Public New England Schools (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

St. John Kelly, E. (1994, May 22). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, p. 1412.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mueller 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Karels and Boonstra 2000; Mueller 2015).

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

Two authors: (Karels and Boonstra 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al. 2014)

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

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