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 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

1. Burnett DS. NASA returns rocks from a comet. Science. 2006;314:1709–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Michaels D, Wagner W. Science and government. Disclosure in regulatory science. Science. 2003;302:2073.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nasrallah ME, Liu P, Nasrallah JB. Generation of self-incompatible Arabidopsis thaliana by transfer of two S locus genes from A. lyrata. Science. 2002;297:247–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Robinson RC, Turbedsky K, Kaiser DA, Marchand JB, Higgs HN, Choe S, et al. Crystal structure of Arp2/3 complex. Science. 2001;294:1679–84.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Esch GW. Ecological Parasitology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Hayat MA, editor. Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 6: Spinal Tumors (Part 1). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sekitoleko N, Evbota F, Knauss E, Sandberg A, Chaudron M, Olsson HH. Technical Dependency Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Software Development. In: Cantone G, Marchesi M, editors. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 15th International Conference, XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 26-30, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 46–61.

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. Fruit Flies Know How To Sniff Out Antioxidants [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fruit-flies-know-how-sniff-out-antioxidants/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving, But Critical Risks Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jan. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-49.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Currano LJ. Latching microelectromechanical shock sensor systems: Design, modeling, and experiments [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Stevenson A, Goldstein M. Renting to Own a Tainted Home. New York Times. 2016 Dec 26;A1.

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