How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). 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]

Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom. 2006. Neuroscience. Neuron, know thy neighbor. Science 311, 5767 (March 2006), 1560–1562.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Peter H. Thrall and Jeremy J. Burdon. 2003. Evolution of virulence in a plant host-pathogen metapopulation. Science 299, 5613 (March 2003), 1735–1737.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tetsuo Iwasawa, Richard J. Hooley, and Julius Rebek Jr. 2007. Stabilization of labile carbonyl addition intermediates by a synthetic receptor. Science 317, 5837 (July 2007), 493–496.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Paul M. Winkler, Gerhard Steiner, Aron Vrtala, Hanna Vehkamäki, Madis Noppel, Kari E. J. Lehtinen, Georg P. Reischl, Paul E. Wagner, and Markku Kulmala. 2008. Heterogeneous nucleation experiments bridging the scale from molecular ion clusters to nanoparticles. Science 319, 5868 (March 2008), 1374–1377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Whitham D. Reeve. 2006. DC Power System Design for Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Gene W. Yeo (Ed.). 2014. Systems Biology of RNA Binding Proteins. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Christos T. Georgakis and Nina G. Jørgensen. 2013. Change in Mass and Damping on Vertically Vibrating Footbridges Due to Pedestrians. In Topics in Dynamics of Bridges, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013, Alvaro Cunha (ed.). Springer, New York, NY, 37–45.

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 Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Stephen Luntz. 2017. Mars Stayed Damp Much Later Than We Thought. IFLScience.

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. 1978. Procedures To Safeguard Social Security Beneficiary Records Can and Should Be Improved. 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]

Jessica L. Wright. 2015. Shade Tolerance and Physiological Response to Light Regime of the Invasive Species Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle). Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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]

John Koblin. 2017. Trump’s Address Attracts 48 Million Viewers. New York Times, B2.

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, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
ISSN (print)	1556-4665
ISSN (online)	1556-4703
Scope