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 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

Zhou Y. 2015. The rapid rise of a research nation. Nature 528:S170-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karplus PA, Diederichs K. 2012. Linking crystallographic model and data quality. Science 336:1030–1033.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thompson RJ, Zhou N, MacVicar BA. 2006. Ischemia opens neuronal gap junction hemichannels. Science 312:924–927.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Schwarzenbach RP, Escher BI, Fenner K, Hofstetter TB, Johnson CA, von Gunten U, Wehrli B. 2006. The challenge of micropollutants in aquatic systems. Science 313:1072–1077.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke RM, Nieboer D, Misiewicz J. 2014. Fat-Tailed Distributions: Volume 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Civelli O, Zhou Q-Y eds. 2008. Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Novel Neuropeptides. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang H, Hao F, Zhu C, Rodrigues JJPC, Yang LT. 2012. An Android Multimedia Framework Based on Gstreamer. In: Rodrigues JJPC, Zhou L, Chen M, Kailas A, editors. Green Communications and Networking: First International Conference, GreeNets 2011, Colmar, France, October 5-7, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 51–62.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Watch This Fascinating Time-Lapse Of Hatching Bees. IFLScience.

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. 1989. Computer Systems: Actions on OMB Recommendations for a Joint Lookout System. 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

Ghafoori HD. 2010. Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers.

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

Ewing J, Tabuchi H, Protess B. 2017. Volkswagen Said to Be Near Deal With U.S. in Diesel Case. New York Times:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zhou, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Karplus and Diederichs, 2012; Zhou, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Karplus and Diederichs, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Schwarzenbach et al., 2006)

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