How to format your references using the AIDS Care citation style

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

Stone, R. (2000). EASTERN EUROPE: Help Needed to Rebuild Science in Yugoslavia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5492), 690–695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hone, J., & Carpick, R. W. (2015). Friction. Slippery when dry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6239), 1087–1088.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martens, S., Kozlov, M. M., & McMahon, H. T. (2007). How synaptotagmin promotes membrane fusion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5828), 1205–1208.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Meng, Q., Liu, J., Varricchio, D. J., Huang, T., & Gao, C. (2004). Palaeontology: parental care in an ornithischian dinosaur. Nature, 431(7005), 145–146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Panek, W., & Wentworth, T. (2010). Mastering Microsoft® Windows® 7 Administration. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Poirier, D. R. (2016). Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing (G. H. Geiger, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Shevchenko, E. V., & Talapin, D. V. (2008). Self-assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals into ordered superstructures. In A. L. Rogach (Ed.), Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Assembly, Spectroscopy and Applications (pp. 119–169). 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 AIDS Care.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 26). FDA Considering Releasing Genetically-Modified Mosquitos In Florida. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fda-considering-releasing-genetically-modified-mosquitos-florida/

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. (2000). Government Performance and Results Act: Information on FAA’s Science Activities in DOT’s Performance Report for Fiscal Year 1999, Performance Plan for FY 2001, and July 2000 Draft Strategic Plan (RCED-00-258R). 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

McCready, M. (2017). Examining the Role of Community Capacity for Sustainable Water Planning through Local Urban Governance: A Case Study Analysis of Waukesha, Wisconsin [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

Neuman, W. (2013, December 10). Mayor Ousted In Colombia After Claims Of Bungling. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stone, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hone & Carpick, 2015; Stone, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hone & Carpick, 2015)
Three authors: (Martens et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Meng et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	AIDS Care
Abbreviation	AIDS Care
ISSN (print)	0954-0121
ISSN (online)	1360-0451
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Social Psychology Health(social science)