How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP). 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]

Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom. 2006. Neuroscience. Neuron, know thy neighbor. Science 311, 5767 (March 2006), 1560–1562.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jukka Jernvall and Mikael Fortelius. 2002. Common mammals drive the evolutionary increase of hypsodonty in the Neogene. Nature 417, 6888 (May 2002), 538–540.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hiroki Takeuchi, Norio Nakatsuji, and Hirofumi Suemori. 2014. Endodermal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to insulin-producing cells in 3D culture. Sci. Rep. 4, (March 2014), 4488.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. H. Choi, Q. Wang, Y. Azuma, Y. Majima, J. H. Warner, Y. Miyata, H. Shinohara, and R. Kitaura. 2013. Fabrication and characterization of fully flattened carbon nanotubes: a new graphene nanoribbon analogue. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 1617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jonathan Tran. 2010. The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Esen Özkaya. 2014. Adverse Cutaneous Drug Reactions to Cardiovascular Drugs. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Maria Husmann, Michael Nebeling, and Moira C. Norrie. 2013. MultiMasher: A Visual Tool for Multi-device Mashups. In Current Trends in Web Engineering: ICWE 2013 International Workshops ComposableWeb, QWE, MDWE, DMSSW, EMotions, CSE, SSN, and PhD Symposium, Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-12, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Quan Z. Sheng and Jesper Kjeldskov (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 27–38.

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 Transactions on Applied Perception.

Blog post

[1]

Stephen Luntz. 2014. New Estimate Suggests 100 Million Planets In Our Galaxy Capable Of Sustaining Complex Life. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-estimate-suggests-100-million-planets-our-capable-sustaining-complex-life/

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. 2011. School Improvement Grants: Early Implementation Under Way, but Reforms Affected by Short Time Frames. 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]

Erik B. Larson. 2014. Bahamian Quaternary geology and the global carbon budget. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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 Koblin. 2017. Hulu Hires AMC Veteran as First Chief Content Officer. New York Times, B2.

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 [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 5, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Appl. Percept.
ISSN (print)	1544-3558
ISSN (online)	1544-3965
Scope	General Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science Experimental and Cognitive Psychology