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]

Clark R. Landis. 2015. Organic chemistry. Construction and deconstruction of aldehydes by transfer hydroformylation. Science 347, 6217 (January 2015), 29–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mary Jane Thomassen and Mani S. Kavuru. 2014. Lung disease: Treatment by cell transplant. Nature 514, 7523 (October 2014), 438–440.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Adam Ben-Shem, Felix Frolow, and Nathan Nelson. 2003. Crystal structure of plant photosystem I. Nature 426, 6967 (December 2003), 630–635.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Ho-Ki Lyeo, A. A. Khajetoorians, Li Shi, Kevin P. Pipe, Rajeev J. Ram, Ali Shakouri, and C. K. Shih. 2004. Profiling the thermoelectric power of semiconductor junctions with nanometer resolution. Science 303, 5659 (February 2004), 816–818.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Luis L. Bonilla and Stephen W. Teitsworth. 2010. Nonlinear Wave Methods for Charge Transport. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

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Federico Álvarez, Frances Cleary, Petros Daras, John Domingue, Alex Galis, Ana Garcia, Anastasius Gavras, Stamatis Karnourskos, Srdjan Krco, Man-Sze Li, Volkmar Lotz, Henning Müller, Elio Salvadori, Anne-Marie Sassen, Hans Schaffers, Burkhard Stiller, Georgios Tselentis, Petra Turkama, and Theodore Zahariadis (Eds.). 2012. The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2012: From Promises to Reality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

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Mussab Zneika, Claudio Lucchese, Dan Vodislav, and Dimitris Kotzinos. 2016. RDF Graph Summarization Based on Approximate Patterns. In Information Search, Integration, and Personalization: 10th International Workshop, ISIP 2015, Grand Forks, ND, USA, October 1-2, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Emanuel Grant, Dimitris Kotzinos, Dominique Laurent, Nicolas Spyratos and Yuzuru Tanaka (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 69–87.

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

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Stephen Luntz. 2017. Undersea Landslide Unleashed Gigantic Ancient Tsunami. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/undersea-landslide-unleashed-gigantic-ancient-tsunami/

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

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Government Accountability Office. 2003. Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization. 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

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German G. Gramajo. 2014. Guidance control of small UAV with energy and maneuverability limitations for a search and coverage mission. 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

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James Poniewozik. 2017. Sketching an Artistic Love Triangle. New York Times, C1.

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 [4, 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