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

Webb B. Robots in invertebrate neuroscience. Nature 2002; 417:359–363.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schultz RM, Williams CJ. The science of ART. Science 2002; 296:2188–2190.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samet JM, DeMarini DM, Malling HV. Biomedicine. Do airborne particles induce heritable mutations? Science 2004; 304:971–972.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rosas-Ballina M, Olofsson PS, Ochani M, Valdés-Ferrer SI, Levine YA, Reardon C, et al. Acetylcholine-synthesizing T cells relay neural signals in a vagus nerve circuit. Science 2011; 334:98–101.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mang T, Bobzin K, Bartels T. Industrial Tribology. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Schüermann M, Franz U, editors. Quantum Independent Increment Processes II: Structure of Quantum Levy Processes, Classical Probability, and Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Shughart W. Cost Inflation in Intercollegiate Athletics: And Some Modest Proposals for Controlling It. In: Doing More with Less: Making Colleges Work Better. Hall JC (editor). . New York, NY: Springer; 2010. pp. 71–93.

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

Hale T. Drone Captures 70 Tiger Sharks Feasting On A Whale. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/drone-captures-70-tiger-sharks-feasting-whale/ (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. School Facilities: States’ Financial and Technical Support Varies. 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

Garcia CA. Tracking chemistry self-efficacy and achievement in a preparatory chemistry course. 2010.

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

Jones IB. Article 8 -- No Title. New York Times. 1903; :The New York Times SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS AND ARTBR10.

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