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]

Peter M. Kappeler. 2013. Evolution. Why male mammals are monogamous. Science 341, 6145 (August 2013), 469–470.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. A. Lopes and H. M. Jaeger. 2001. Hierarchical self-assembly of metal nanostructures on diblock copolymer scaffolds. Nature 414, 6865 (December 2001), 735–738.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Konstantina Skourti-Stathaki, Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula, and Nicholas J. Proudfoot. 2014. R-loops induce repressive chromatin marks over mammalian gene terminators. Nature 516, 7531 (December 2014), 436–439.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Xiao Lin, Zuojia Wang, Fei Gao, Baile Zhang, and Hongsheng Chen. 2014. Atomically thin nonreciprocal optical isolation. Sci. Rep. 4, (February 2014), 4190.

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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Edward J. McMillan. 2010. Not-for-Profit Budgeting and Financial Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Roberto Barrios and Abida K. Haque (Eds.). 2013. Parasitic Diseases of the Lungs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Mohan Iyer. 2013. The Elbow Joint. In Trauma Management in Orthopedics, K. Mohan Iyer (ed.). Springer, London, 27–37.

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. 2014. Wolf Spotted In Grand Canyon For The First Time In 70 Years. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wolf-returns-grand-canyon/

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. 1988. FAA’s Implementation of the Expanded East Coast Plan. 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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Rhianna C. Rogers. 2010. Documenting cultural transition through contact archaeology in Tíhoo, Mérida, Yucatán. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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]

Eli Rosenberg. 2017. New York Firefighter Dies After Falling From Roof. New York Times, A25.

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 [2, 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