How to format your references using the Journal of the International AIDS Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the International AIDS Society. 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

McLaughlin S. Cell biology. Tools to tamper with phosphoinositides. Science. 2006 Dec 1;314(5804):1402–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chiu C, Weliky M. Neuroscience. Synaptic modification by vision. Science. 2003 Jun 20;300(5627):1890–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Akhtar A, Zink D, Becker PB. Chromodomains are protein-RNA interaction modules. Nature. 2000 Sep 21;407(6802):405–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee HC, Portnoff AD, Rocco MA, DeLisa MP. An engineered genetic selection for ternary protein complexes inspired by a natural three-component hitchhiker mechanism. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec 22;4:7570.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown MA, Kaplan L. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

Cerny E. The Power of Assertions in SystemVerilog. First. Dudani S, Havlicek J, Korchemny D, editors. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010. XVII, 544 p. 166 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Khouzani MHR, Pham V, Cid C. Strategic Discovery and Sharing of Vulnerabilities in Competitive Environments. In: Poovendran R, Saad W, editors. Decision and Game Theory for Security: 5th International Conference, GameSec 2014, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 6-7, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 59–78. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Journal of the International AIDS Society.

Blog post

Andrews R. Ebola Nations Declare First Week With No New Cases [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ebola-nations-declare-first-week-no-new-cases0/

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

Government Accountability Office. Early Decisions and Delays on the Zilwaukee, Michigan, Bridge Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Aug. Report No.: RCED-83-165.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maldonado JA. Searching for Confirmation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Quain JR. Cars Will Talk to One Another. Exactly How Is Less Certain. New York Times. 2017 Mar 9;B4.

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	Journal of the International AIDS Society
Abbreviation	J. Int. AIDS Soc.
ISSN (online)	1758-2652
Scope	Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health