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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

K. L. Tanaka. 2000. PLANETARY SCIENCE: Fountains of Youth. Science 288, 5475 (June 2000), 2325.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Joseph A. Resing and Pamela M. Barrett. 2014. Ocean chemistry: Fingerprints of a trace nutrient. Nature 511, 7508 (July 2014), 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lisa M. Mehlmann, Teresa L. Z. Jones, and Laurinda A. Jaffe. 2002. Meiotic arrest in the mouse follicle maintained by a Gs protein in the oocyte. Science 297, 5585 (August 2002), 1343–1345.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Xiao-Chun Wu, Zhan Li, Bao-Chun Zhou, and Zhi-Ming Dong. 2003. Palaeontology: a polydactylous amniote from the Triassic period. Nature 426, 6966 (December 2003), 516.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Richard B. Weller, Hamish J. A. Hunter, and Margaret W. Mann. 2014. Clinical Dermatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Aapo Hyvärinen. 2009. Natural Image Statistics: A Probabilistic Approach to Early Computational Vision. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Seow Theng Ong and Fook Tim Chew. 2010. Reconstructing the Repertoire of Mite Allergens by Recombinant DNA Technology. In Allergy Frontiers: Future Perspectives, Ruby Pawankar, Stephen T. Holgate and Lanny J. Rosenwasser (eds.). Springer Japan, Tokyo, 49–64.

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]

Chris Carpineti. 2017. Scientists Attached A Camera To A Whale, And The Footage Is Truly Spectacular. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-attached-a-camera-to-a-whale-and-the-footage-is-truly-spectacular/

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. 1998. Airport Improvement Program: Planned Funding Under Letters of Intent. 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]

Homero Pena. 2017. Long-Term Effects of Post-Fire Forest Structure on Understory Vegetation in Larch Forests of the Siberian Arctic. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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]

Bill Vlasic and Mary M. Chapman. 2015. Union Vote at Ford and G.M. Ends Painful Process for Big Three. New York Times, A24.

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