How to format your references using the Primate Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Primate Biology. 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

Van Dover, C. L.: Tighten regulations on deep-sea mining, Nature, 470, 31–33, 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ward, L. D. and Kellis, M.: Response to comment on “Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions,” Science, 340, 682, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Russell, S. H., Hancock, M. P., and McCullough, J.: The pipeline. Benefits of undergraduate research experiences, Science, 316, 548–549, 2007.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Solanki, K., Grover, N., Downs, P., Paskaleva, E. E., Mehta, K. K., Lee, L., Schadler, L. S., Kane, R. S., and Dordick, J. S.: Enzyme-based listericidal nanocomposites, Sci. Rep., 3, 1584, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lißner, K. and Rug, W.: Der Eurocode 5 für Deutschland Eurocode 5: Bemessung und Konstruktion von Holzbauten, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

Fabbro, S. (Ed.): Mega Transport Infrastructure Planning: European Corridors in Local-Regional Perspective, 1st ed. 2015., Springer International Publishing, Cham, X, 264 p. 94 illus., 28 illus. in color pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Dawson, A. G. and Waller, D. A.: Cervical Mediastino-Thoracoscopy, in: The Transcervical Approach in Thoracic Surgery, edited by: Zieliński, M. and Rami-Porta, R., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 45–51, 2014.

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 Primate Biology.

Blog post

Ichthyosaurs Gave Life To Ocean Depths:

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: Cybersecurity: Recent Data Breaches Illustrate Need for Strong Controls across Federal Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, E. S.: Waging war with words: Idealized gender and Iberian chivalry, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2008.

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

Billard, M.: His Mission: Beat Swords Into Baubles, New York Times, 4th July, E6, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Van Dover, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Van Dover, 2011; Ward and Kellis, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ward and Kellis, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Solanki et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Primate Biology
ISSN (print)	2363-4707
ISSN (online)	2363-4715
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