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. Macilwain C. Scientists vs engineers: this time it’s financial. Nature. 2010;467:885.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lee WL, Grinstein S. Immunology. The tangled webs that neutrophils weave. Science. 2004;303:1477–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rankenburg K, Brandon AD, Neal CR. Neodymium isotope evidence for a chondritic composition of the Moon. Science. 2006;312:1369–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Reganold JP, Glover JD, Andrews PK, Hinman HR. Sustainability of three apple production systems. Nature. 2001;410:926–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hirsch HL. Essential Communication Strategies for Scientists, Engineers, and Technology Professionals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Ślęzak D, Kim T-H, Yau SS, Gervasi O, Kang B-H, editors. Grid and Distributed Computing: International Conference, GDC 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conferences, FGIT 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Padula F, Visioli A. $$\fancyscript{H}_\infty $$ H ∞ Control of Fractional Systems. In: Visioli A, editor. Advances in Robust Fractional Control. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 93–108.

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. Fang J. Scientists Find The Single Molecule That Attracts Predators To Blood. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Tactical Airlift: Issues Concerning Air Force Plans for Pacific Distribution System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-89-81.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cashion AT. Exploring Dielectric Absorption: Data Collection System Development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 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. Sisario B. McCartney Sues to Get Back His Songs. New York Times. 2017 Jan 19;B2.

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