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

Laporte R. Recruiters and academia. Nature 2004; 428:876.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cowen LE, Lindquist S. Hsp90 potentiates the rapid evolution of new traits: drug resistance in diverse fungi. Science 2005; 309:2185–2189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gadsby DC, Vergani P, Csanády L. The ABC protein turned chloride channel whose failure causes cystic fibrosis. Nature 2006; 440:477–483.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Samaha H, Pignata A, Fousek K, Ren J, Lam FW, Stossi F, et al. A homing system targets therapeutic T cells to brain cancer. Nature 2018; 561:331–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach D. The Responsible Conduct of Research. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 1996.

An edited book

Dwyer A, Ball M, Crofts T, editors. Queering Criminology. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Malone T, Jackman C. Spectatorship as Embodied Practice. In: Adapting War Horse: Cognition, the Spectator, and a Sense of Play. Jackman C (editor). . London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. pp. 39–49.

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

Davis J. July 2016 Was Officially The Hottest Month Ever On Record. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/july-2016-was-officially-the-hottest-month-ever-on-record/ (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. Reengineering: Opportunities to Improve. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Branch J. A Case Study of Perceptions and Experiences among African-American Males Regarding College Dropout Rates in a Community College. 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

Chen DW, David Goodman J. In Naming Top Police Official, De Blasio May Signal Change. New York Times. 2013; :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
Abbreviation	AIDS
ISSN (print)	0269-9370
ISSN (online)	1473-5571
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Infectious Diseases