How to format your references using the Current HIV/AIDS Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current HIV/AIDS Reports. 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. Güntürkün O. Human behaviour: Adult persistence of head-turning asymmetry. Nature. 2003;421:711.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Butchart N, Scaife AA. Removal of chlorofluorocarbons by increased mass exchange between the stratosphere and troposphere in a changing climate. Nature. 2001;410:799–802.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Prahlad V, Pilgrim D, Goodwin EB. Roles for mating and environment in C. elegans sex determination. Science. 2003;302:1046–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Boorum MM, Vasil’ev YV, Drewello T, Scott LT. Groundwork for a rational synthesis of C60: cyclodehydrogenation of a C60H30 polyarene. Science. 2001;294:828–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Strohfeldt KA. Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Fuschi P, Pisano AA, Weichert D, editors. Direct Methods for Limit and Shakedown Analysis of Structures: Advanced Computational Algorithms and Material Modelling. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Busquets-Mataix JV, Catalá C, Martí-Campoy A. Architecture Extensions for Efficient Management of Scratch-Pad Memory. In: Ayala JL, García-Cámara B, Prieto M, Ruggiero M, Sicard G, editors. Integrated Circuit and System Design Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization, and Simulation: 21st International Workshop, PATMOS 2011, Madrid, Spain, September 26-29, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 43–52.

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 Current HIV/AIDS Reports.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Completes 600 Days In Earth Orbit [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-x37b-space-plane-completes-600-days-in-earth-orbit/

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. Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Volume 67, November 1987. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Nov. Report No.: 087967.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Arnold DM. An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 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. Vecsey G. Underdog’s Feat Is Inspiration for Cricket’s Dreamers. New York Times. 2011 Mar 6;SP7.

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	Current HIV/AIDS Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. HIV/AIDS Rep.
ISSN (print)	1548-3568
ISSN (online)	1548-3576
Scope	Virology Infectious Diseases