How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Computing Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE). 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]

Jeremy D. Schnittman. 2013. Astronomy. The curious behavior of the milky way’s central black hole. Science 341, 6149 (August 2013), 964–965.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Alan Hastings and Margaret A. Palmer. 2003. Mathematics and biology. A bright future for biologists and mathematicians? Science 299, 5615 (March 2003), 2003–2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. P. Gavriil, V. M. Kaspi, and P. M. Woods. 2002. Magnetar-like X-ray bursts from an anomalous X-ray pulsar. Nature 419, 6903 (September 2002), 142–144.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. R. Marlow, C. B. Lange, G. Wefer, and A. Rosell-Mele. 2000. Upwelling intensification as part of the Pliocene-Pleistocene climate transition. Science 290, 5500 (December 2000), 2288–2291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Simón Uribe. 2017. Frontier Road. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Jeffrey J. Goldberger and Jason Ng (Eds.). 2010. Practical Signal and Image Processing in Clinical Cardiology. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Andreas Bauer, Peter Baumgartner, Martin Diller, and Michael Norrish. 2013. Tableaux for Verification of Data-Centric Processes. In Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods: 22nd International Conference, TABLEAUX 2013, Nancy, France, September 16-19, 2013, Proceedings, Didier Galmiche and Dominique Larchey-Wendling (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 28–43.

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 Computing Education.

Blog post

[1]

Stephen Luntz. 2015. What Causes These “Sailing Stones” To Move? IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-look-sailing-stones/

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. 1990. Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain. 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]

Nadine P. Frederique. 2010. The effectiveness of school based intensive probation for reducing recidivism: An evaluation of Maryland’s Spotlight on Schools program. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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]

John Schwartz. 2017. Climate Scientists Unite With Lawyers to Counter Attacks on Their Efforts. New York Times, A16.

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 Computing Education
ISSN (online)	1946-6226
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