How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Graphics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 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	Download the output style file
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]

Maurice Rice. 2006. Physics. Superconductivity with a twist. Science 314, 5803 (November 2006), 1248–1249.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. F. Atkins and R. F. Gesteland. 2001. mRNA readout at 40. Nature 414, 6865 (December 2001), 693.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. K. S. Thorpe, R. L. Holder, and R. H. Crompton. 2007. Origin of human bipedalism as an adaptation for locomotion on flexible branches. Science 316, 5829 (June 2007), 1328–1331.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Ju-Myung Kim, Jang-Hoon Park, Chang Kee Lee, and Sang-Young Lee. 2014. Multifunctional semi-interpenetrating polymer network-nanoencapsulated cathode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 4, (April 2014), 4602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Noël Carroll. 2013. Minerva’s Night Out. A John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

[1]

Michal Amit and Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor (Eds.). 2012. Atlas of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Derivation and Culturing. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Stefano Colonna, Giancarlo Folco, and Franca Marangoni. 2013. Vitamine e minerali. In I cibi della salute: Le basi chimiche di una corretta alimentazione, Giancarlo Folco and Franca Marangoni (eds.). Springer, Milano, 75–95.

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 Graphics.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2015. Are We Living In A Hologram? IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/2d-people-looking-out-3d-world/

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. USDA Telecommunications: Better Management and Network Planning Could Save Millions. 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]

Darlene P. Huger Marsh. 2012. Perspectives of disciplinary problems and practices in elementary schools. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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. 2010. Petty Remains Nascar’s Once-and-Always King. New York Times, SP8.

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, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Graphics
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Graph.
ISSN (print)	0730-0301
ISSN (online)	1557-7368
Scope