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]

Pascal Boyer. 2008. Being human: Religion: bound to believe? Nature 455, 7216 (October 2008), 1038–1039.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Minttumaaria Hannonen and Liselotte Sundström. 2003. Sociobiology: Worker nepotism among polygynous ants. Nature 421, 6926 (February 2003), 910.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Oded Ben-David, Shmuel M. Rubinstein, and Jay Fineberg. 2010. Slip-stick and the evolution of frictional strength. Nature 463, 7277 (January 2010), 76–79.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Robert A. Spicer, Nigel B. W. Harris, Mike Widdowson, Alexei B. Herman, Shuangxing Guo, Paul J. Valdes, Jack A. Wolfe, and Simon P. Kelley. 2003. Constant elevation of southern Tibet over the past 15 million years. Nature 421, 6923 (February 2003), 622–624.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pierre Camille Lacaze and Jean-Christophe Lacroix. 2014. Non-Volatile Memories. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Tuncer Cebeci. 2005. Modeling and Computation of Boundary-Layer Flows: Laminar, Turbulent and Transitional Boundary Layers in Incompressible and Compressible Flows (Second Revised and Extended Edition ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Masahiro Hori, Yasunori Kihara, and Takashi Kato. 2011. Investigation of Indirect Oral Operation Method for Think Aloud Usability Testing. In Human Centered Design: Second International Conference, HCD 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011. Proceedings, Masaaki Kurosu (ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 38–46.

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]

Josh Davis. 2016. Healthy Mouse Pups Born From Lab Grown Eggs In World First. 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. 2013. Broadcast and Cable Television: Requirements for Identifying Sponsored Programming Should Be Clarified. 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]

Elizabeth A. Duncan. 2017. Environmental controls of black abalone body temperature determine risks of thermal stress and disease. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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]

Michael J. de la MERCED and Chad Bray. 2017. Rite Aid Will Sell Some Stores to Walgreens, Ending Plans to Merge. New York Times, B2.

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 [4–6, 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