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]

Susan E. Hough. 2009. Journal club. A seismologist considers a new method of earthquake prediction. Nature 457, 7231 (February 2009), 767.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Caliskan and A. Laref. 2014. Spin transport properties of n-polyacene molecules (n = 1-15) connected to Ni surface electrodes: theoretical analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, (December 2014), 7363.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Camila Carlos, Tatiana T. Torres, and Laura M. M. Ottoboni. 2013. Bacterial communities and species-specific associations with the mucus of Brazilian coral species. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 1624.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. F. L. Maxted, R. Napiwotzki, P. D. Dobbie, and M. R. Burleigh. 2006. Survival of a brown dwarf after engulfment by a red giant star. Nature 442, 7102 (August 2006), 543–545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lawrence V. Tannenbaum. 2013. Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Yaroslav D. Sergeyev. 2013. Introduction to Global Optimization Exploiting Space-Filling Curves. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nicole Immorlica. 2009. Technology Diffusion in Social Networks. In SOFSEM 2009: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, January 24-30, 2009. Proceedings, Mogens Nielsen, Antonín Kučera, Peter Bro Miltersen, Catuscia Palamidessi, Petr Tůma and Frank Valencia (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 35–36.

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]

Robin Andrews. 2017. How Powerful Was A T. Rex’s Bite? Science Now Has An Answer For You.. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/t-rexs-pulverizing-bite-force-equaled-the-weight-of-three-cars/

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. 2005. Information Technology: OMB Can More Effectively Use Its Investment Reviews. 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]

Mitchell C. Trichon. 2010. Self-Help Conferences for People Who Stutter: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. 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 Gene Gustines. 2017. Adventures in Comics and the Real World. New York Times, C1.

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, 5, 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
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