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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Glasby, G. P. (2000). ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: Lessons Learned from Deep-Sea Mining. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5479), 551–553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Singer, A. L., & Koretzky, G. A. (2002). Control of T cell function by positive and negative regulators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1639–1640.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furuya, T., Kamlet, A. S., & Ritter, T. (2011). Catalysis for fluorination and trifluoromethylation. Nature, 473(7348), 470–477.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Orning, P., Weng, D., Starheim, K., Ratner, D., Best, Z., Lee, B., et al. (2018). Pathogen blockade of TAK1 triggers caspase-8-dependent cleavage of gasdermin D and cell death. Science (New York, N.Y.).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cliteur, P. (2010). The Secular Outlook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Richardson, S. J., & Cody, V. (Eds.). (2009). Recent Advances in Transthyretin Evolution, Structure and Biological Functions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Augl, M. (2012). Building a Conceptual Roadmap for Systemic Change – A Novel Approach to Change Management in Expert Organizations in Health Care. In C. Stary (Ed.), S-BPM ONE – Scientific Research: 4th International Conference, S-BPM ONE 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 4-5, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 43–61). 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, April 30). Melting Moments: A Look Under East Antarctica’s Biggest Glacier. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/melting-moments-look-under-east-antarctica-s-biggest-glacier/. 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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Continuing Risks of Disruption to Social Security, Medicare, and Treasury Programs (No. T-AIMD-98-161). 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

Stevenson, J. (2012). Differences in physical activity behavior between insulin using diabetics versus non-insulin using diabetics (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

Feeney, K. (2012, September 2). Coming for ‘Cake Boss’ And Finding More. New York Times, p. NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glasby 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Glasby 2000; Singer and Koretzky 2002).

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

Two authors: (Singer and Koretzky 2002)
Three or more authors: (Orning et al. 2018)

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