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. Powell K. Glittering prizes. Nature. 2004;428:676–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rappuoli R, Covacci A. Reverse vaccinology and genomics. Science. 2003;302:602.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zinchuk V, Wu Y, Grossenbacher-Zinchuk O. Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative colocalization results in fluorescence microscopy studies. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1365.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Shao W, Dong H, Wang Z, Hu W. Touching polymer chains by organic field-effect transistors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Meyer VR. Pitfalls and Errors of HPLC in Pictures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Thomas M, editor. Inflammation in Parkinson’s Disease: Scientific and Clinical Aspects. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Biollay Y, Chaabouni A, Stubbe J. Funzioni. In: Chaabouni A, Stubbe J, Quarteroni A, editors. Matematica si parte!: Nozioni di base ed esercizi per il primo anno di Ingegneria. Milano: Springer; 2007. p. 67–77.

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. Carpineti A. Watch The Perseid Meteor Shower Online [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-the-perseid-meteor-shower-online/

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. Civilian Agencies’ Management and Use of Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Feb. Report No.: T-GGD-88-15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mednick Takami L. Chief Diversity Officers in U.S. Higher Education: Impacting the Campus Climate for Diversity [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. Burns A, Shear MD. Trump Turmoil Is Confounding G.O.P. Agenda. New York Times. 2017 Jul 30;A1.

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