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]

Colin Macilwain. 2015. Change the cancer conversation. Nature 520, 7545 (April 2015), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Carmeliet and R. K. Jain. 2000. Angiogenesis in cancer and other diseases. Nature 407, 6801 (September 2000), 249–257.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ziad M. Hafed, Laurent Goffart, and Richard J. Krauzlis. 2009. A neural mechanism for microsaccade generation in the primate superior colliculus. Science 323, 5916 (February 2009), 940–943.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Frederick Berkovitch, Yvain Nicolet, Jason T. Wan, Joseph T. Jarrett, and Catherine L. Drennan. 2004. Crystal structure of biotin synthase, an S-adenosylmethionine-dependent radical enzyme. Science 303, 5654 (January 2004), 76–79.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. 1996. Guidelines for Use of Vapor Cloud Dispersion Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Ed.). 2014. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wei Li, Michael Henein, and Michael A. Gatzoulis. 2007. Disease of the Aorta. In Echocardiography in Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Michael Henein and Michael A. Gatzoulis (eds.). Springer, London, 59–64.

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]

Tom Hale. 2016. Mice Sing Ultrasonic Love Songs Akin To A Jet Engine. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mice-sing-ultrasonic-love-songs-akin-to-a-jet-engine/

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. 1997. Department of Education: Challenges in Promoting Access and Excellence in Education. 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]

Chun-Shu Wei. 2017. Towards Brain Decoding for Real-World Drowsiness Detection. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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 J. O. Murphy. 2014. Friday File. New York Times, C34.

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 [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [4, 6–8].

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
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