How to format your references using the AIDS and Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIDS and Behavior. 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

1. Dial KP. Wing-assisted incline running and the evolution of flight. Science. 2003;299:402–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kulesa PM, Fraser SE. Cell dynamics during somite boundary formation revealed by time-lapse analysis. Science. 2002;298:991–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Meierbachtol T, Harper J, Humphrey N. Basal drainage system response to increasing surface melt on the Greenland ice sheet. Science. 2013;341:777–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Suh B-C, Inoue T, Meyer T, Hille B. Rapid chemically induced changes of PtdIns(4,5)P2 gate KCNQ ion channels. Science. 2006;314:1454–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ralph D, Graham P. MMS: Technologies, Usage and Business Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

1. Groschner K, Graier WF, Romanin C, editors. Store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) pathways: Emerging signaling concepts in human (patho)physiology. Vienna: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Baru C, Bhandarkar M, Curino C, Danisch M, Frank M, Gowda B, et al. Discussion of BigBench: A Proposed Industry Standard Performance Benchmark for Big Data. In: Nambiar R, Poess M, editors. Performance Characterization and Benchmarking Traditional to Big Data: 6th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2014, Hangzhou, China, September 1--5, 2014 Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 44–63.

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 AIDS and Behavior.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Ancient Americans Hunted Bizarre Elephant Relative [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-americans-hunted-bizarre-elephant-relative/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. High-Performance Computing: High-Speed Computer Networks in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Sep. Report No.: IMTEC-91-69.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Johnson NJ. Queered [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

1. Greenhouse L. Trump v. the Court. New York Times. 2017 Feb 4;SR1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	AIDS and Behavior
Abbreviation	AIDS Behav.
ISSN (print)	1090-7165
ISSN (online)	1573-3254
Scope	Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Social Psychology