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

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

Q. Schiermeier. 2001. Imported stem cells deepen Germany’s ethical divide. Nature 412, 6842 (July 2001), 4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

John Ellis and Nick E. Mavromatos. 2011. Does gravity correct gauge couplings? Nature 479, 7374 (November 2011), E5-6; discussion E6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Antoine Blin, Ismaïl Cissé, and Ulrich Bockelmann. 2014. Electronic hybridization detection in microarray format and DNA genotyping. Sci. Rep. 4, (February 2014), 4194.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Christina D. Gallup, H. Cheng, F. W. Taylor, and R. L. Edwards. 2002. Direct determination of the timing of sea level change during termination II. Science 295, 5553 (January 2002), 310–313.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rod Ellis. 2012. Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Ron Kimmel, Reinhard Klette, and Akihiro Sugimoto (Eds.). 2011. Computer Vision – ACCV 2010: 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 8-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ahmet Gürses, Metin Açıkyıldız, Kübra Güneş, and M. Sadi Gürses. 2016. Colorants in Health and Environmental Aspects. In Dyes and Pigments, Metin Açıkyıldız, Kübra Güneş and M. Sadi Gürses (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 69–83.

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 Embedded Computing Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Stephen Luntz. 2017. Crowds Get Wiser When They Talk To Each Other. IFLScience.

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. 1998. District of Columbia: Chronology of Events Related to the Metropolitan Police Use of $15 Million Appropriation. 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]

Amanda Dawn Felder Derkacs. 2010. The role of desmin in the signaling response to mechanical stretch of skeletal muscle. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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]

Ben Rothenberg. 2017. Another Marathon Match Win by Nadal Sets Up Final With Federer. New York Times, D5.

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 Embedded Computing Systems
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1539-9087
ISSN (online)	1558-3465
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software