How to format your references using the AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses (AID). 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kostelecký VA. Precision measurement: The magnetic proton. Nature 2014;509(7502):571–572.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stumpf MPH, Porter MA. Mathematics. Critical truths about power laws. Science 2012;335(6069):665–666.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aida T, Meijer EW, Stupp SI. Functional supramolecular polymers. Science 2012;335(6070):813–817.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li C-H, Benedick AJ, Fendel P, et al. A laser frequency comb that enables radial velocity measurements with a precision of 1 cm s(-1). Nature 2008;452(7187):610–612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rees H. Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2011.

An edited book

Muñoz-Rojas PA, (ed). Optimization of Structures and Components. Advanced Structured Materials. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Grinin L, Korotayev A. The Great Convergence and Globalization: How Former Colonies Became the World Economic Locomotives. In: Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective. (Korotayev A. ed) Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015; pp. 115–158.

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 AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.

Blog post

Luntz S. 85,000 Endangered Antelopes Die Mysteriously In Just One Day. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/saiga-antelopes-dying-unprecedented-rates/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Automation in the Workplace: Barriers, Impact on the Work Force, and the Federal Role. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coughenour BM. Photovoltaic Concentrator Optical System Design: Solar Energy Engineering from Physics to Field. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ; 2014.

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

Brantley B. The Man Who Fell, Looking Well. New York Times 2015;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
ISSN (print)	0889-2229
ISSN (online)	1931-8405
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