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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIDS Research and Therapy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Linden DJ. Neuroscience. From molecules to memory in the cerebellum. Science. 2003;301:1682–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Britt RD, Oyala PH. Biochemistry. One step closer to O₂. Science. 2014;345:736.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bueno JT, Shchukina N, Ramos AA. A substantial amount of hidden magnetic energy in the quiet Sun. Nature. 2004;430:326–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gao X, An H, Fang W, Huang X, Li H, Zhong W. Characteristics of the transmission of autoregressive sub-patterns in financial time series. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Anderson JC, Naeim F. Basic Structural Dynamics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Klemm D, editor. Polysaccharides II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Santos LD, Martins I. The Monitoring System on Quality of Life of the City of Porto. In: Sirgy MJ, Phillips R, Rahtz D, editors. Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VI. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 77–98.

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 Therapy.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Gluten-Destroying Drug Succeeds In Early Trial [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gluten-destroying-drug-succeeds-in-early-trial/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Space Acquisitions: Major Space Programs Still at Risk for Cost and Schedule Increases. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Mar. Report No.: GAO-08-552T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Naik M. Automating the process of antibiotic susceptibility testing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Markowitz JC. There’s Such a Thing as Too Much Neuroscience. New York Times. 2016 Oct 15;A21.

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 Research and Therapy
Abbreviation	AIDS Res. Ther.
ISSN (online)	1742-6405
Scope	Molecular Medicine Virology Pharmacology (medical)