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

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

Sushil Atreya. 2007. Planetary science. Titan’s organic factory. Science 316, 5826 (May 2007), 843–845.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Linheng Li and Hans Clevers. 2010. Coexistence of quiescent and active adult stem cells in mammals. Science 327, 5965 (January 2010), 542–545.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Elena V. Gorb, Martina J. Baum, and Stanislav N. Gorb. 2013. Development and regeneration ability of the wax coverage in Nepenthes alata pitchers: a cryo-SEM approach. Sci. Rep. 3, (October 2013), 3078.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Ana Carolina Carnaval, Michael J. Hickerson, Célio F. B. Haddad, Miguel T. Rodrigues, and Craig Moritz. 2009. Stability predicts genetic diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot. Science 323, 5915 (February 2009), 785–789.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dennis B. Malpass and Elliot I. Band. 2012. Introduction to Industrial Polypropylene. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Kerstin Eder, João Lourenço, and Onn Shehory (Eds.). 2012. Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 7th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2011, Haifa, Israel, December 6-8, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Willy Dörfler, Armin Lechleiter, Michael Plum, Guido Schneider, and Christian Wieners. 2011. An introduction to direct and inverse scattering theory. In Photonic Crystals: Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Approximation, Armin Lechleiter, Michael Plum, Guido Schneider and Christian Wieners (eds.). Springer, Basel, 79–126.

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 Interactive Intelligent Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2014. Hummingbirds, From Eggs To Nestlings. 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. 1973. Summary of United States Assistance to Jordan. 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

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Takehisa Matsuda. 2012. Computational proposal for locating local defects in superconducting tapes. 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]

Sophia Kishkovsky (nyt). 2005. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Hacker Halts New Kremlin TV Channel. New York Times, A16.

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, 6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2160-6455
ISSN (online)	2160-6463
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction