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

Bullock, R. M. (2013). Chemistry. Abundant metals give precious hydrogenation performance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6162), 1054–1055.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berman, D. E., & Dudai, Y. (2001). Memory extinction, learning anew, and learning the new: dissociations in the molecular machinery of learning in cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5512), 2417–2419.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, C. J., Nichol, R. C., & Batuski, D. J. (2001). Acoustic oscillations in the early universe and today. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5525), 2302–2303.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Patton, G. C., Olsson, C. A., Skirbekk, V., Saffery, R., Wlodek, M. E., Azzopardi, P. S., Stonawski, M., Rasmussen, B., Spry, E., Francis, K., Bhutta, Z. A., Kassebaum, N. J., Mokdad, A. H., Murray, C. J. L., Prentice, A. M., Reavley, N., Sheehan, P., Sweeny, K., Viner, R. M., & Sawyer, S. M. (2018). Publisher Correction: Adolescence and the next generation. Nature, 559(7712), E1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Varrall, G. (2011). Making Telecoms Work. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schmidt, C., & Schneider, J. (Eds.). (2016). Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts: Critical Perspectives. SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Ingrascì, O. (2007). Women in the ‘Ndrangheta: The Serraino-Di Giovine Case. In G. Fiandaca (Ed.), Women and the Mafia (pp. 47–52). 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

Taub, B. (2016, August 12). Paraplegics Learn To Feel Their Legs Again Using Virtual Reality. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/paraplegics-learn-feel-legs-again-virtual-reality/

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. (2003). Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization (GAO-04-43). 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

Starner, R. N. (2013). Expanding the Scope of Silyl Protecting Groups for Sialylation Reactions [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Johnson, G. (2016, May 17). A Carnival of Consciousness. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bullock, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Berman & Dudai, 2001; Bullock, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Berman & Dudai, 2001)
Three authors: (Miller et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Patton et al., 2018)

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