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]

Eric N. Olson. 2006. Gene regulatory networks in the evolution and development of the heart. Science 313, 5795 (September 2006), 1922–1927.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

William Wickner and Randy Schekman. 2005. Protein translocation across biological membranes. Science 310, 5753 (December 2005), 1452–1456.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Konrad Thürmer, Robert Q. Hwang, and Norman C. Bartelt. 2006. Surface self-organization caused by dislocation networks. Science 311, 5765 (March 2006), 1272–1274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Ando, Y. Shibata, Y. Okajima, K. Kanagawa, M. Furusho, and N. Tomioka. 2001. Striped iron zoning of olivine induced by dislocation creep in deformed peridotites. Nature 414, 6866 (2001), 893–895.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Julia M. Carroll, Claudine Bowyer-Crane, Fiona J. Duff, Charles Hulme, and Margaret J. Snowling. 2011. Developing Language and Literacy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Ronald E. Anderson (Ed.). 2015. World Suffering and Quality of Life. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Philippe Askenazy and John Forth. 2016. Work Organisation and Human Resource Management: Does Context Matter? In Comparative Workplace Employment Relations: An Analysis of Practice in Britain and France, Thomas Amossé, Alex Bryson, John Forth and Héloïse Petit (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 141–177.

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]

Elise Andrew. 2015. Giant Galaxies Die From The Inside When They Stop Making Stars. 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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Medicare and the Delivery of Health Services Are at Risk. 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]

Jessica Meza. 2013. A community outreach program for Latino immigrant families: Increasing service utilization. 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]

Ben Sisario. 2016. Pearl Jam, Shakur Among Rock Nominees. New York Times, C4.

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, 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