How to format your references using the AIDS citation style

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

Stirling CH. Geochemistry. Keeping time with Earth’s heaviest element. Science 2012; 335:1585–1586.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fehr E, Rockenbach B. Detrimental effects of sanctions on human altruism. Nature 2003; 422:137–140.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller PM, Gavrilets S, Rice WR. Sexual conflict via maternal-effect genes in ZW species. Science 2006; 312:73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fang Y, Jayaram H, Shane T, Kolmakova-Partensky L, Wu F, Williams C, et al. Structure of a prokaryotic virtual proton pump at 3.2 A resolution. Nature 2009; 460:1040–1043.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMillan EJ. Not-for-Profit Budgeting and Financial Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

McDowell MA, Rafati S, editors. Neglected Tropical Diseases - Middle East and North Africa. Vienna: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Feller D, Peterson KA, Ruscic B. Improved accuracy benchmarks of small molecules using correlation consistent basis sets. In: Thom H. Dunning, Jr: A Festschrift from Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. Wilson AK, Peterson KA, Woon DE (editors). . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. pp. 31–46.

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.

Blog post

Andrew E. Costa Rica Has Only Used Renewable Energy For Electricity This Year. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/costa-rica-has-only-used-renewables-electricity-year/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Activities of the National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Laird T. Risk and protective factors associated with adjudicated versus non -adjudicated youths arrested for substance use. 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

Billard M. Winning Recruits. New York Times. 2010; :E9.

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
Abbreviation	AIDS
ISSN (print)	0269-9370
ISSN (online)	1473-5571
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Infectious Diseases