How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES). 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]

Christoph Adami. 2015. Artificial intelligence: Robots with instincts. Nature 521, 7553 (May 2015), 426–427.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Marcus E. Farmer and Phil S. Baran. 2015. Organic chemistry: A cure for catalyst poisoning. Nature 524, 7564 (August 2015), 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

O. J. Reichman, Matthew B. Jones, and Mark P. Schildhauer. 2011. Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology. Science 331, 6018 (February 2011), 703–705.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Praveen Kumar Vemula, Jonathan E. Kohler, Amy Blass, Miguel Williams, Chenjie Xu, Lynna Chen, Swapnil R. Jadhav, George John, David I. Soybel, and Jeffrey M. Karp. 2014. Self-assembled hydrogel fibers for sensing the multi-compartment intracellular milieu. Sci. Rep. 4, (March 2014), 4466.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Eugene A. Scanlan. 2009. Fundraising Consultants. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Ulrich Lüttge, Erwin Beck, and Dorothea Bartels (Eds.). 2011. Plant Desiccation Tolerance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Doina Precup, Philipp W. Keller, and Felix-Olivier Duguay. 2006. RedAgent: An Autonomous, Market-based Supply-Chain Management Agent for the Trading Agents Competition. In Multiagent based Supply Chain Management, Brahim Chaib-draa and Jörg P. Müller (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 135–154.

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 Design Automation of Electronic Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2014. Study Concludes That Female Hurricanes Are More Dangerous Than Male Hurricanes. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/study-concludes-female-hurricanes-are-more-dangerous-male-hurricanes/

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. 2004. Aviation Safety: Better Management Controls are Needed to Improve FAA’s Safety Enforcement and Compliance Efforts. 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]

Craig F. Crozier. 2012. A qualitative study of teacher job satisfaction in an evolutionary and mandated change environment. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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 Pfaff. 2017. The Justices Need Fact-Checkers. New York Times, A27.

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 [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Des. Automat. Electron. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1084-4309
ISSN (online)	1557-7309
Scope