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. Smil V V. Jumbo. Nature. 2000;406:239.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gratzer W, Nathan DG. Obituary: Fred S. Rosen (1930-2005). Nature. 2005;435:1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ma L, Teruya-Feldstein J, Weinberg RA. Tumour invasion and metastasis initiated by microRNA-10b in breast cancer. Nature. 2007;449:682–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Xia X, Chen W, Li J, Chen X, Rui R, Liu C, et al. Body mass index and risk of breast cancer: a nonlinear dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7480.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Scott DW. Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

1. Nash JC, Buechler HC, editors. Ethnographic Collaborations in Latin America: The Effects of Globalization. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Agostini M, Casi M, De Lauro F, Mattone V, Bartolomei M. Brain Imaging with SPECT-CT. In: Farsad M, Mansi L, editors. Atlas of SPECT-CT. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 121–32.

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. The Milky Way Is Running Away From An Extragalactic Void [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-milky-way-is-running-away-from-an-extragalactic-void/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Leadership Needed to Collect and Disseminate Critical Biomedical Equipment Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Sep. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-310.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Okafor-Dike LC. The effect of leadership on economic development: A case study of Nigeria [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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. Kelly K, Stevenson A. Capital Drama Rattles Wall St. And Stocks Dive. New York Times. 2017 May 17;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