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]

Laura A. Hyatt. 2012. IBI* series winner. Personal plants: making botany meaningful by experimentation. Science 337, 6102 (September 2012), 1620–1621.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Sprent and D. F. Tough. 2001. T cell death and memory. Science 293, 5528 (July 2001), 245–248.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Robert M. Timm, Rob Roy Ramey 2nd, and Nomenclature Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists. 2005. What constitutes a proper description? Science 309, 5744 (September 2005), 2163–6; author reply 2163-6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Hideki Okamoto, Shino Hamao, Hidenori Goto, Yusuke Sakai, Masanari Izumi, Shin Gohda, Yoshihiro Kubozono, and Ritsuko Eguchi. 2014. Transistor application of alkyl-substituted picene. Sci. Rep. 4, (May 2014), 5048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Roger M. Cooke, Daan Nieboer, and Jolanta Misiewicz. 2014. Fat-Tailed Distributions: Volume 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Vincent Di Marino. 2016. The Amygdaloid Nuclear Complex: Anatomic Study of the Human Amygdala (1st ed. 2016 ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. O. Isselmou, H. Wackernagel, W. Tabbara, and J. Wiart. 2008. Geostatistical Estimation of Electromagnetic Exposure. In geoENV VI – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Amílcar Soares, Maria João Pereira and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos (eds.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 59–70.

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]

Elise Andrew. 2015. Our Web History Reveals What We Think And Do. Shouldn’t That Remain Private? 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. 2005. Aviation Security: Screener Training and Performance Measurement Strengthened, but More Work Remains. 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]

Jenny Marie Riley. 2017. Was Sloth the Ultimate Slow Food? An Archaeological Examination of Padre Nuestro Cavern, Dominican Republic. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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]

Robert Kelly. 1998. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been . . . New York Times, 76.

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 [2, 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