How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 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]

Cassandra Willyard. 2013. Pathology: At the heart of the problem. Nature 493, 7434 (January 2013), S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Warren Lau and Elizabeth S. Sattely. 2015. Six enzymes from mayapple that complete the biosynthetic pathway to the etoposide aglycone. Science 349, 6253 (September 2015), 1224–1228.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Amit Basole, Leonard E. White, and David Fitzpatrick. 2003. Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. Nature 423, 6943 (June 2003), 986–990.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Saurabh K. Sengar, B. R. Mehta, Rakesh Kumar, and Vinod Singh. 2013. In-flight gas phase growth of metal/multi layer graphene core shell nanoparticles with controllable sizes. Sci. Rep. 3, (October 2013), 2814.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2015. Making Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, and Maiga Chang (Eds.). 2009. Transactions on Edutainment III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Richard Banks, Victor Khomenko, and L. Jason Steggles. 2011. Modeling Genetic Regulatory Networks. In Modeling in Systems Biology: The Petri Net Approach, Ina Koch, Wolfgang Reisig and Falk Schreiber (eds.). Springer, London, 73–100.

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 Computer-Human Interaction.

Blog post

[1]

Jonathan O`Callaghan. 2015. New Dark Matter Theory Says It’s A Type Of Particle We’ve Known About For 80 Years. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/yet-another-dark-matter-theory-says-its-particle-weve-know-80-years/

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. Broadcast Exclusivity Rules: Effects of Elimination Would Depend on Other Federal Actions and Industry Response. 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]

Jenith Mishne. 2012. An investigation of the relationships between technology use and teachers’ self-efficacy, knowledge and experience. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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 Hubbard. 2017. Overlooking Slights by Trump, Saudis Plan a Lavish Welcome. 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, 5, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact.
ISSN (print)	1073-0516
ISSN (online)	1557-7325
Scope