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. Triendl R. Japan’s cloning ban will allow stem cell experiments. Nature. 2000;404:321.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Coates JC, de Bono M. Antagonistic pathways in neurons exposed to body fluid regulate social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2002;419:925–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bernevig BA, Hughes TL, Zhang S-C. Quantum spin Hall effect and topological phase transition in HgTe quantum wells. Science. 2006;314:1757–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Eustis SN, Radisic D, Bowen KH, Bachorz RA, Haranczyk M, Schenter GK, et al. Electron-driven acid-base chemistry: proton transfer from hydrogen chloride to ammonia. Science. 2008;319:936–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hens H. Building Physics - Heat, Air and Moisture. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

1. Lee CT, Wood DP, editors. Bladder Cancer: Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gupta G, Bansal A, Min R, Simon L, Mallya A. Coinductive Logic Programming and Its Applications. In: Dahl V, Niemelä I, editors. Logic Programming: 23rd International Conference, ICLP 2007, Porto, Portugal, September 8-13, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 27–44.

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. Hale T. Photographs Of Cities From Space Have Shown A Worrying Trend [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/photographs-of-cities-from-space-have-shown-a-worrying-trend/

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. Department of Education’s Federal Direct Loan Program: Status of Recommendations to Improve Cost Estimates and Presentation of Updated Cash Flow Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Mar. Report No.: GAO-04-567R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bebianno Simoes M. Work and social activism in the life stories of Latina domestic workers [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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. At All-Star Game, Politics and Passion Are Also in Play. New York Times. 2011 Jul 11;D2.

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

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