How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP). 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]

Kendal Powell. 2005. Save now, don’t pay later. Nature 433, 7023 (January 2005), 336–337.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Joshua D. Rabinowitz and Eileen White. 2010. Autophagy and metabolism. Science 330, 6009 (December 2010), 1344–1348.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Renata Freitas, Guangjun Zhang, and Martin J. Cohn. 2006. Evidence that mechanisms of fin development evolved in the midline of early vertebrates. Nature 442, 7106 (August 2006), 1033–1037.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. G. Blackman, A. Frank, J. A. Markiel, J. H. Thomas, and H. M. Van Horn. 2001. Dynamos in asymptotic-giant-branch stars as the origin of magnetic fields shaping planetary nebulae. Nature 409, 6819 (January 2001), 485–487.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jonathan Pevsner. 2005. Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Mohammed Ismail and Delia Rodríguez D. E. Llera González (Eds.). 2006. Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ting Wang, Sheng-Uei Guan, and Fei Liu. 2012. Entropic Feature Discrimination Ability for Pattern Classification Based on Neural IAL. In Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012: 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part II, Jun Wang, Gary G. Yen and Marios M. Polycarpou (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 30–37.

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 Asian Language Information Processing.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2014. A Game of Hives: Two Australian Bee Species Battle For Months Over Territory. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/game-hives-two-australian-bee-species-battle-months-over-territory/

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. 2015. Post-9/11 GI Bill: Additional Actions Needed to Help Reduce Overpayments and Increase Collections. 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]

Devon Ritter. 2008. The EU and conflict: Critically assessing the success of the ESDP and its impact in conflict areas. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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]

Susan B. Glasser. 2017. Our Putin. New York Times, SR1.

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 [5–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process.
ISSN (print)	1530-0226
ISSN (online)	1558-3430
Scope