1 files changed, 5 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
index 1490eef6..69460dbc 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ For more information see the documentation on [content negotiation][conneg].
 
 ## Setting the renderers
 
-The default set of renderers may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES` setting.  For example, the following settings would use `YAML` as the main media type and also include the self describing API.
+The default set of renderers may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES` setting.  For example, the following settings would use `JSON` as the main media type and also include the self describing API.
 
     REST_FRAMEWORK = {
         'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
-            'rest_framework.renderers.YAMLRenderer',
+            'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
             'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer',
         )
     }
@@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ You can also set the renderers used for an individual view, or viewset,
 using the `APIView` class based views.
 
     from django.contrib.auth.models import User
-    from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer, YAMLRenderer
+    from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer
     from rest_framework.response import Response
     from rest_framework.views import APIView
 
     class UserCountView(APIView):
         """
-        A view that returns the count of active users, in JSON or YAML.
+        A view that returns the count of active users in JSON.
         """
-        renderer_classes = (JSONRenderer, YAMLRenderer)
+        renderer_classes = (JSONRenderer, )
 
         def get(self, request, format=None):
             user_count = User.objects.filter(active=True).count()
@@ -93,38 +93,6 @@ The default JSON encoding style can be altered using the `UNICODE_JSON` and `COM
 
 **.charset**: `None`
 
-## YAMLRenderer
-
-Renders the request data into `YAML`.
-
-Requires the `pyyaml` package to be installed.
-
-Note that non-ascii characters will be rendered using `\uXXXX` character escape.  For example:
-
-    unicode black star: "\u2605"
-
-**.media_type**: `application/yaml`
-
-**.format**: `'.yaml'`
-
-**.charset**: `utf-8`
-
-## UnicodeYAMLRenderer
-
-Renders the request data into `YAML`.
-
-Requires the `pyyaml` package to be installed.
-
-Note that non-ascii characters will not be character escaped.  For example:
-
-    unicode black star: ★
-
-**.media_type**: `application/yaml`
-
-**.format**: `'.yaml'`
-
-**.charset**: `utf-8`
-
 ## TemplateHTMLRenderer
 
 Renders data to HTML, using Django's standard template rendering.