How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC). 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]

Wayne A. Hendrickson. 2013. Jerome Karle (1918-2013). Nature 499, 7459 (July 2013), 410.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jennifer A. Whitson and Adam D. Galinsky. 2008. Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception. Science 322, 5898 (October 2008), 115–117.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chris Wise, Michael Pawlyn, and Michael Braungart. 2013. Eco-engineering: Living in a materials world. Nature 494, 7436 (February 2013), 172–175.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Nelson P. Barrera, Natalie Di Bartolo, Paula J. Booth, and Carol V. Robinson. 2008. Micelles protect membrane complexes from solution to vacuum. Science 321, 5886 (July 2008), 243–246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Roy Taylor. 2006. Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin (Eds.). 2014. American Jewish Year Book 2013: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Henry Riggs. 2009. What Are the Institutional Obstacles to the Integration of Academic Science and Industry? In Integrated Science: New Approaches to Education, David J. Marcey and Michael C. Shaw (eds.). Springer US, Boston, MA, 53–66.

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 Information and System Security.

Blog post

[1]

Janet Fang. 2014. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a Sunburn. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/jupiters-great-red-spot-sunburn/

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. 1989. Effective Schools Programs: Their Extent and Characteristics. 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]

Alison A. Sikorsky. 2014. Concentration enhancement and device fabrication for the improved performance of gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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]

Susan Hodara. 2016. The Art Speaks, and the Poetry Paints a Picture. New York Times, CT10.

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 [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 5, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. Secur.
ISSN (print)	1094-9224
ISSN (online)	1557-7406
Scope