How to format your references using the AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses (AID). 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

Gingerich O. A radical reorientation. Nature 2004;430(6998):407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reader JS, Joyce GF. A ribozyme composed of only two different nucleotides. Nature 2002;420(6917):841–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore SD, McGinness KE, Sauer RT. Structural biology. A glimpse into tmRNA-mediated ribosome rescue. Science 2003;300(5616):72–73.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yan J-J, Sun J-T, You Y-Z, et al. Growing hyperbranched polymers using natural sunlight. Sci Rep 2013;3:2841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldmann D. Social Movements For Good. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ; 2015.

An edited book

Lee R, (ed). Computers,Networks, Systems, and Industrial Engineering 2011. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Reid IN, Metchev SA. The Brown Dwarf — Exoplanet Connection. In: Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability. (Mason JW. ed) Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2008; pp. 115–152.

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 Research and Human Retroviruses.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Tatooine Planets Orbiting Two Stars Are More Likely To Survive. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/tatooine-planets-orbiting-two-stars-are-more-likely-to-survive/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Troops-To-Teachers: Program Brings More Men and Minorities to the Teaching Workforce, but Education Could Improve Management to Enhance Results. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mahan CP. First to the Finish Line: A Case Study of First Generation Baccalaureate Degree Completers in the University of Maryland Student Support Services Program. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD; 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

Wagner J. Loss to Nationals Brings Reminders of Early Season Demons. New York Times 2017;B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Research and Human Retroviruses
ISSN (print)	0889-2229
ISSN (online)	1931-8405
Scope