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 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

Kirchman, D. (2009). Journal club. A microbial ecologist learns something new from an old-fashioned study. Nature, 459(7243), 13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, H.-Y., & Malbon, C. C. (2003). Wnt signaling, Ca2+, and cyclic GMP: visualizing Frizzled functions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1529–1530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuck, A. L., Turner, S. M., & Liss, P. S. (2002). Direct evidence for a marine source of C1 and C2 alkyl nitrates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5584), 1151–1154.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Morris, E. J., Ji, J.-Y., Yang, F., Di Stefano, L., Herr, A., Moon, N.-S., Kwon, E.-J., Haigis, K. M., Näär, A. M., & Dyson, N. J. (2008). E2F1 represses beta-catenin transcription and is antagonized by both pRB and CDK8. Nature, 455(7212), 552–556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros, D., & Lannoo, K. (2004). The Euro Capital Market. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Palazzo, D. (2012). Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places (F. Steiner, Ed.). Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

A chapter in an edited book

Candilis, P. J., Weinstock, R., & Martinez, R. (2007). Robust Professionalism: Beyond Role. In R. Weinstock & R. Martinez (Eds.), Forensic Ethics and the Expert Witness (pp. 97–122). Springer US.

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. (2014, April 24). The Y Chromosome- It’s Not Just Sex. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/y-chromosome-its-not-just-sex/

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. (2012). Student and Exchange Visitor Program: DHS Needs to Take Actions to Strengthen Monitoring of Schools (GAO-12-895T). 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

Jiang, W. (2010). Advanced techniques for semantic concept detection in general videos [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Rosenberg, M., & Risen, J. (2017, March 10). Trump’s Intelligence Nominee Gets an Early Lesson in Managing the White House. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirchman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kirchman, 2009; Wang & Malbon, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Malbon, 2003)
Three authors: (Chuck et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Morris 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