How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL). 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]

Daisuke Onozuka. 2014. Effect of non-stationary climate on infectious gastroenteritis transmission in Japan. Sci. Rep. 4, (June 2014), 5157.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kathy L. Hudson and Francis S. Collins. 2013. Biospecimen policy: Family matters. Nature 500, 7461 (August 2013), 141–142.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano, and Jens M. Olesen. 2006. Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance. Science 312, 5772 (April 2006), 431–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Say Hwa Tan, Florine Maes, Benoît Semin, Jérémy Vrignon, and Jean-Christophe Baret. 2014. The microfluidic jukebox. Sci. Rep. 4, (April 2014), 4787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

René Smeets, Lou van der Sluis, Mirsad Kapetanović, David F. Peelo, and Anton Janssen. 2014. Switching in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Graham C. Goodwin. 2005. Constrained Control and Estimation: An Optimisation Approach. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Bertarelli, S. Padoa, G. Guaraldi, E. Genovese, M. Corradini, B. Mayeku, and J. Kilwake. 2011. Low Cost Wireless Technology and Digital Board for Education in Rural Kenya. In e-Technologies and Networks for Development: First International Conference, ICeND 2011, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, August 3-5, 2011. Proceedings, Jim James Yonazi, Eliamani Sedoyeka, Ezendu Ariwa and Eyas El-Qawasmeh (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 52–60.

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 Computational Logic.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2014. IPCC Reports: We Must Manage Risk of Widespread Climate Change Effects. 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. 2003. Federal Transit Administration: Bus Rapid Transit Offers Communities a Flexible Mass Transit Option. 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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Michael David Evans. 2014. A Correlational Analysis of Teacher Observation Scores and Student Achievement. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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]

William K. Rashbaum and Michael Schwirtz. 2017. Rikers Tumult Rises: Monitor Accused of Spying. New York Times, A1.

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 Computational Logic
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Comput. Log.
ISSN (print)	1529-3785
ISSN (online)	1557-945X
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