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]

Bernhard Schölkopf. 2015. Artificial intelligence: Learning to see and act. Nature 518, 7540 (February 2015), 486–487.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Natasha K. Hussain and Morgan Sheng. 2005. Neuroscience. Making synapses: a balancing act. Science 307, 5713 (February 2005), 1207–1208.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Christopher R. Baker, Victor Hanson-Smith, and Alexander D. Johnson. 2013. Following gene duplication, paralog interference constrains transcriptional circuit evolution. Science 342, 6154 (October 2013), 104–108.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Dorota Sikora, Lynda Rocheleau, Earl G. Brown, and Martin Pelchat. 2014. Deep sequencing reveals the eight facets of the influenza A/HongKong/1/1968 (H3N2) virus cap-snatching process. Sci. Rep. 4, (August 2014), 6181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Robert Moeller. 2010. IT Audit, Control, and Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Marcia Hogeling (Ed.). 2016. Case-Based Inpatient Pediatric Dermatology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aristide van Aartsengel and Selahattin Kurtoglu. 2013. Culture and Values Dimension. In A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation: Concepts, Processes, Implementation, Selahattin Kurtoglu (ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 39–50.

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]

Josh Davis. 2016. Is Your Child A Fussy Eater? It May Be In Their Genes. 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. 1984. U.S. Citizens Studying Medicine Abroad. 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]

Michael Ambrose Walsh. 2010. Passage. 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]

Mary Billard. 2010. For Stepping Across a Bridge. New York Times, E5.

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