How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO). 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]

Herb Brody. 2015. Prostate cancer. Nature 528, 7582 (December 2015), S117.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. E. Duffy and M. Fried. 2001. Biomedicine. Turncoat antibodies. Science 293, 5537 (September 2001), 2009–2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Takeuchi, Y. Yamanashi, and N. Yoshikawa. 2014. Reversible logic gate using adiabatic superconducting devices. Sci. Rep. 4, (September 2014), 6354.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Filippo M. Cernilogar, Maria Cristina Onorati, Greg O. Kothe, A. Maxwell Burroughs, Krishna Mohan Parsi, Achim Breiling, Federica Lo Sardo, Alka Saxena, Keita Miyoshi, Haruhiko Siomi, Mikiko C. Siomi, Piero Carninci, David S. Gilmour, Davide F. V. Corona, and Valerio Orlando. 2011. Chromatin-associated RNA interference components contribute to transcriptional regulation in Drosophila. Nature 480, 7377 (November 2011), 391–395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bradley Murray. 2015. The Possibility of Culture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Rajkumar Buyya, Mukaddim Pathan, and Athena Vakali (Eds.). 2008. Content Delivery Networks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Brandon Rhodes and John Goerzen. 2014. Network Data and Network Errors. In Foundations of Python Network Programming: Third Edition, John Goerzen (ed.). Apress, Berkeley, CA, 75–92.

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 Architecture and Code Optimization.

Blog post

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Elise Andrew. 2015. Step Into A Van Gogh With A Virtual Reality Tribute To His Famous Paintings. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/step-van-gogh-virtual-reality-tribute-his-famous-paintings/

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. 1995. Aviation Safety: Data Problems Threaten FAA Strides on Safety Analysis System. 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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Laura Zamora. 2017. Azura digital health: Scheduling application and prescription service for women’s health. 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]

Mary Pilon. 2012. Armstrong Finds a Mixed Reception in Triathlon. New York Times, B14.

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 Architecture and Code Optimization
ISSN (print)	1544-3566
ISSN (online)	1544-3973
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Software