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]

Michael Sappol. 2003. Perceptions of science. The anatomical mission to Burma. Science 302, 5643 (October 2003), 232–233.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Xing Xu and Mark A. Norell. 2004. A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture. Nature 431, 7010 (October 2004), 838–841.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tung Cao Thanh Pham, Hyun Sung Kim, and Kyung Byung Yoon. 2011. Growth of uniformly oriented silica MFI and BEA zeolite films on substrates. Science 334, 6062 (December 2011), 1533–1538.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Volker Bromm, Naoki Yoshida, Lars Hernquist, and Christopher F. McKee. 2009. The formation of the first stars and galaxies. Nature 459, 7243 (May 2009), 49–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Patrick Van Der Pijl, Lisa Kay Solomon, and Justin Lokitz. 2016. How To Design a Better Business. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Da Ruan, Guoqing Chen, Etienne E. Kerre, and Geert Wets (Eds.). 2005. Intelligent Data Mining: Techniques and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rohana Ngah, Zarina Salleh, and Wan Ismail Wan Mamat. 2016. Entrepreneurs’ Innovativeness Based on Emotional Intelligence (EI) Competencies Towards Entrepreneurial Success. In Proceedings of the ASEAN Entrepreneurship Conference 2014, Noor Zahirah Mohd Sidek, Siti Meriam Ali and Mahazir Ismail (eds.). Springer, Singapore, 49–55.

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]

Josh Davis. 2016. How Predictive Are Climate Models? IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-predictive-are-climate-models/

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. 1995. International Broadcasting: Downsizing and Relocating Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 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]

Koffi Prosper Amanoua. 2014. Langue et identité dans les milieux populaires québécois et antillais. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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]

George Vecsey. 2011. Decade Later, Waltrip Deals With a Crash At Daytona. New York Times, B13.

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 [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [5–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Computing Education
ISSN (online)	1946-6226
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