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]

Jillian M. Buriak. 2004. Chemistry. Chemistry with nanoscale perfection. Science 304, 5671 (April 2004), 692–693.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Bradford and P. O’Tierney. 2001. Three-person rule was not set by Nobel himself. Nature 411, 6836 (May 2001), 413.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

James H. Fowler, Tim Johnson, and Oleg Smirnov. 2005. Human behaviour: Egalitarian motive and altruistic punishment. Nature 433, 7021 (January 2005), 1 p following 32; discussion following 32.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Akiyoshi Nakamura, Min Yao, Sarin Chimnaronk, Naoki Sakai, and Isao Tanaka. 2006. Ammonia channel couples glutaminase with transamidase reactions in GatCAB. Science 312, 5782 (June 2006), 1954–1958.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Philip W. Davidson, Vee P. Prasher, and Matthew P. Janicki. 2008. Mental Health, Intellectual Disabilities, and the Aging Process. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Bart Beaty. 2016. The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rob White. 2015. Juvenile Justice and Youth Vulnerabilities. In Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice, Kitty te Riele and Radhika Gorur (eds.). SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 63–77.

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]

Tom Hale. 2015. The War On Science. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/short-film-war-science/

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. 1999. Air Force Supply: Management Actions Create Spare Parts Shortages and Operations Problems. 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]

Gina Scoggins Smith. 2008. The relationship between legislative implementations and educator readiness in inclusive educational environments. 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]

James B. Stewart. 2017. Tax Cuts Are Easy, but a Tax Overhaul? Three Proposals to Make the Math Work. New York Times, B1.

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 [3, 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