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. Poo M-M. Cultural reflections. Nature. 2004;428:204–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Collinge J, Clarke AR. A general model of prion strains and their pathogenicity. Science. 2007;318:930–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Piovia-Scott J, Spiller DA, Schoener TW. Effects of experimental seaweed deposition on lizard and ant predation in an island food web. Science. 2011;331:461–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pasqualucci L, Neumeister P, Goossens T, Nanjangud G, Chaganti RS, Küppers R, et al. Hypermutation of multiple proto-oncogenes in B-cell diffuse large-cell lymphomas. Nature. 2001;412:341–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Davis RA. Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment. Hoboken, New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Oyarzun D, Peinado F, Young RM, Elizalde A, Méndez G, editors. Interactive Storytelling: 5th International Conference, ICIDS 2012, San Sebastián, Spain, November 12-15, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cendón B, Herrero J, Agüero R, Rodríguez A, Albillos S, Sainz J, et al. An Access Selection Prototype Based on IEEE 802.21. In: Chatzimisios P, Verikoukis C, Santamaría I, Laddomada M, Hoffmann O, editors. Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems: Second International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 31–42.

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. Andrew E. Let The People Decide New Place Names On Mercury And Pluto. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Deaf/Blind Children and the Centers Serving Them. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Jul. Report No.: 121879.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nersisyan HA. Armenian American Student Perceptions of Campus Climate: Examining the Conditions That Support or Inhibit Their College Experience [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. Carlson L. First the Proposal, Then Remodeling. New York Times. 2012 Oct 12;ST6.

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