How to format your references using the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC). 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]

Joachim von Braun. 2008. The food crisis isn’t over. Nature 456, 7223 (December 2008), 701.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Elissa S. Epel. 2012. Telomeres and adversity: Too toxic to ignore. Nature 490, 7419 (October 2012), 169–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Matthias Niemeier, J. Douglas Crawford, and Douglas B. Tweed. 2003. Optimal transsaccadic integration explains distorted spatial perception. Nature 422, 6927 (March 2003), 76–80.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Qiao Li, Melanie Le May, Natascha Lacroix, and Jihong Chen. 2013. Induction of Pax3 gene expression impedes cardiac differentiation. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 2498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bradley J. Preber. 2014. Financial Expert Witness Communication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Xilong Qu and Yuhang Yang (Eds.). 2012. Information and Business Intelligence: International Conference, IBI 2011, Chongqing, China, December 23-25, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Murali Chakravarthy and Laura Ruggeri. 2014. Role of Inhalational Anesthetic Agents in Reducing Perioperative Mortality. In Reducing Mortality in the Perioperative Period, Giovanni Landoni, Laura Ruggeri and Alberto Zangrillo (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 25–30.

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 ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Tom Hale. 2016. Year-Long Mars Simulation Mission Comes To An End. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/yearlong-mars-simulation-mission-comes-to-an-end/

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. 1994. D.C. Court Orders. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Colleen A. McDuffie. 2017. Melodies of intervention: Music therapy for transitional-age youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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]

John Anderson. 2017. Family Pain, Rendered in Dazzling Color. New York Times, AR15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 4, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
Abbreviation	ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1550-4832
ISSN (online)	1550-4840
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