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]

Ken Robinson. 2006. Personal finance. So what should you invest in? Science 313, 5792 (September 2006), 1456.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Matthew F. Barber and Nels C. Elde. 2014. Nutritional immunity. Escape from bacterial iron piracy through rapid evolution of transferrin. Science 346, 6215 (December 2014), 1362–1366.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ken Simiyu, Abdallah S. Daar, and Peter A. Singer. 2010. Global health. Stagnant health technologies in Africa. Science 330, 6010 (December 2010), 1483–1484.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Eva Pastalkova, Peter Serrano, Deana Pinkhasova, Emma Wallace, André Antonio Fenton, and Todd Charlton Sacktor. 2006. Storage of spatial information by the maintenance mechanism of LTP. Science 313, 5790 (August 2006), 1141–1144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mark Joyner. 2009. Integration Marketing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Changkuan Zhang. 2009. Advances in Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering: Proceedings of 16th IAHR-APD Congress and 3rd Symposium of IAHR-ISHS. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Samar M. Hammad. 2011. Blood Sphingolipids in Homeostasis and Pathobiology. In Sphingolipids and Metabolic Disease, L. Ashley Cowart (ed.). Springer, New York, NY, 57–66.

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. Climbing The Tree: The Case For Chimpanzee ‘Personhood.’ 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. 2006. Natural Gas Pipeline Safety: Integrity Management Benefits Public Safety, but Consistency of Performance Measures Should be Improved. 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]

Linda Ly. 2017. Performance Appraisal in a Family Business. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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]

Mary J. O. Murphy. 2015. Remembering the Phonograph. New York Times, C22.

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