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]

Gerhard Rempe. 2014. Quantum optics. A photon steers a photon with an atom. Science 345, 6199 (August 2014), 871.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Christoph Handschin and Bruce M. Spiegelman. 2008. The role of exercise and PGC1alpha in inflammation and chronic disease. Nature 454, 7203 (July 2008), 463–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Katsuhiko Hayashi, Kayo Yoshida, and Yasuhisa Matsui. 2005. A histone H3 methyltransferase controls epigenetic events required for meiotic prophase. Nature 438, 7066 (November 2005), 374–378.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Sekiyama, T. Iwasaki, K. Matsuda, Y. Saitoh, Y. Onuki, and S. Suga. 2000. Probing bulk states of correlated electron systems by high-resolution resonance photoemission. Nature 403, 6768 (January 2000), 396–398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Salah Obayya, Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, and Nihal F. F. Areed. 2016. Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Jöran Friberg (Ed.). 2007. A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection Cuneiform Texts I. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Laura Rockwood and Larry Johnson. 2016. Verification of Correctness and Completeness in the Implementation of IAEA Safeguards: The Law and Practice. In Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law: Volume II - Verification and Compliance, Jonathan L. Black-Branch and Dieter Fleck (eds.). T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, 57–94.

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]

Josh Davis. 2017. Orangutan “Kiss Squeaks” Could Give Insight Into Evolution Of Human Language. 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. 1992. Superfund: EPA Needs to Better Focus Cleanup Technology Development. 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]

Guadalupe Barrios. 2012. Outreach program to address the unmet needs of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans: A grant proposal. 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]

Ben Sisario. 2017. McCartney Sues to Get Back His Songs. 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 [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 5, 6, 8].

About the journal

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