How to format your references using the American Journal of Physical Anthropology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Giles, J. (2001). Think like a bee. Nature, 410(6828), 510–512.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pashkin, A., & Leitenstorfer, A. (2014). Physics. Particle physics in a superconductor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6201), 1121–1122.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, W., Kawamata, H., & Liu, K. (2009). CH stretching excitation in the early barrier F + CHD3 reaction inhibits CH bond cleavage. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5938), 303–306.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Goldberg, A. V., Molik, S., Tsaousis, A. D., Neumann, K., Kuhnke, G., Delbac, F., … Embley, T. M. (2008). Localization and functionality of microsporidian iron-sulphur cluster assembly proteins. Nature, 452(7187), 624–628.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tadros, T. F. (2010). Colloids in Paints. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Marcinkiewicz, J., & Schaffer, S. W. (Eds.). (2015). Taurine 9. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Howell, A. J., Keyes, C. L. M., & Passmore, H.-A. (2013). Flourishing Among Children and Adolescents: Structure and Correlates of Positive Mental Health, and Interventions for Its Enhancement. In C. Proctor & P. A. Linley (Eds.), Research, Applications, and Interventions for Children and Adolescents: A Positive Psychology Perspective (pp. 59–79). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 28). Ancient Pterosaur Used Four Huge Fangs To Snack On Ancient Crocodiles. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from IFLScience website: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-pterosaur-used-four-huge-fangs-snack-ancient-crocodiles/

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. (1993). Transportation: Federal Assessments Levied on Commercial Maritime Industry (No. T-RCED-93-24). 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

Randolph, J. L. (2017). A Mixed-Methods Investigation of FMS Shoulder Mobility and Reported Upper Body Injury in Collegiate Football Athletes at a Division II Midwestern University (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Corkery, M., & Walsh, M. W. (2015, October 15). Treasury Considers Plan to Help Puerto Rico. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giles, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Giles, 2001; Pashkin & Leitenstorfer, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pashkin & Leitenstorfer, 2014)
Three authors: (Zhang, Kawamata, & Liu, 2009)
6 or more authors: (Goldberg et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.
ISSN (print)	0002-9483
ISSN (online)	1096-8644
Scope	Anatomy Anthropology