How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST). 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]

Martin Rees. 2013. Time for global statistics we can count on. Nature 502, 7471 (October 2013), 273.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tim Gollisch and Markus Meister. 2008. Rapid neural coding in the retina with relative spike latencies. Science 319, 5866 (February 2008), 1108–1111.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Jaromír Kovářík, and Trevon Logan. 2014. How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex? Sci. Rep. 4, (December 2014), 7540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Dong-Jie Zhao, Zhong-Yi Wang, Lan Huang, Yong-Peng Jia, and John Q. Leng. 2014. Spatio-temporal mapping of variation potentials in leaves of Helianthus annuus L. seedlings in situ using multi-electrode array. Sci. Rep. 4, (June 2014), 5435.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bhupesh K. Lad, Divya Shrivastava, and Makarand S. Kulkarni. 2016. Machine Tool Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Esen Özkaya. 2014. Adverse Cutaneous Drug Reactions to Cardiovascular Drugs. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Xiaochen Jin. 2011. Legal Theoretical Analysis on the Market Economy Mode of China—Discussing from the Status of Market Economy in Anti-dumpling. In Advances in Education and Management: International Symposium, ISAEBD 2011, Dalian, China, August 6-7, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV, Mark Zhou (ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 34–40.

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 Intelligent Systems and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Alfredo Carpineti. 2017. Event Horizon Telescope To Begin Most Detailed Observation Of A Black Hole in April. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/event-horizon-telescope-to-begin-most-detailed-observation-of-a-black-hole-in-april/

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. 1982. Labor Market Problems of Teenagers Result Largely From Doing Poorly in School. 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]

Catherine Savvas. 2010. Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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]

Ben Kenigsberg. 2016. The Wasted Times. New York Times, C13.

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, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2157-6904
ISSN (online)	2157-6912
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Theoretical Computer Science