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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American 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	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

Billups, K. (2015). Climate science: timing is everything during deglaciations. Nature, 522(7555), 163–164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, Y., & Xiong, Y. (2001). A p53 amino-terminal nuclear export signal inhibited by DNA damage-induced phosphorylation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5523), 1910–1915.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mei, L., Chen, Y., & Ma, J. (2014). Gas sensing of SnO2 nanocrystals revisited: developing ultra-sensitive sensors for detecting the H2S leakage of biogas. Scientific Reports, 4, 6028.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yamasaki, M., Li, W., Johnson, D. J. D., & Huntington, J. A. (2008). Crystal structure of a stable dimer reveals the molecular basis of serpin polymerization. Nature, 455(7217), 1255–1258.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells, J. T. (2017). Corporate Fraud Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vega, F. F. de, & Cantú-Paz, E. (Eds.). (2010). Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence (Vol. 269). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Goadsby, P. J. (2006). Serotonin Receptor Ligands: Treatments of Acute Migraine and Cluster Headache. In C. Stein (Ed.), Analgesia (pp. 129–143). 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 American Journal of Primatology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 27). Take An Interactive Tour Through The Largest Cave In The World. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/take-trip-infinity-interactive-tour-inside-vietnams-son-doong-cave/

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. (2005). Highlights of an Expert Panel: The Benefits and Costs of Highway and Transit Investments (GAO-05-423SP). 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

Ryan, H. L. (2009). Normalizing happiness: The rhetoric of depression in Direct -to -Consumer advertising [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Shpigel, B. (2017, May 10). Season Over, the Rangers Are Left to Consider What Might Have Been. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Billups, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Billups, 2015; Zhang & Xiong, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Zhang & Xiong, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yamasaki et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Primatology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Primatol.
ISSN (print)	0275-2565
ISSN (online)	1098-2345
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics