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. Xu P. Eppendorf 2005 winner. A Drosophila OBP required for pheromone signaling. Science. 2005;310:798–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wolff EW, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk. Ocean science. Whither Antarctic sea ice? Science. 2003;302:1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Norris DJ, Efros AL, Erwin SC. Doped nanocrystals. Science. 2008;319:1776–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Márquez LM, Redman RS, Rodriguez RJ, Roossinck MJ. A virus in a fungus in a plant: three-way symbiosis required for thermal tolerance. Science. 2007;315:513–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Yu J, Tao D. Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Czichos H, Saito T, Smith L, editors. Springer Handbook of Metrology and Testing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Waters NC, Edstein MD. 8-Aminoquinolines: Primaquine and Tafenoquine. In: Staines HM, Krishna S, editors. Treatment and Prevention of Malaria: Antimalarial Drug Chemistry, Action and Use. Basel: Springer; 2012. p. 69–94.

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. Andrew E. Broca’s Area of Speech In Brain Surprisingly Inactive During Talking [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/broca-s-area-speech-brain-surprisingly-inactive-during-talking/

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. Congressional Oversight: FAA Case Study Shows How Agency Performance, Budgeting, and Financial Information Could Enhance Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Mar. Report No.: GAO-06-378.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pepper I. On the Difference between Serialism and Seriality [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 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

1. Cooper M. A Toothy Strongman Gets a Role at the Met Opera. New York Times. 2017 May 19;C1.

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)