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]

Brian R. Edlin. 2011. Perspective: test and treat this silent killer. Nature 474, 7350 (May 2011), S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou and Tim Stearns. 2006. Mechanism limiting centrosome duplication to once per cell cycle. Nature 442, 7105 (August 2006), 947–951.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chanseok Shin, Ying Feng, and James L. Manley. 2004. Dephosphorylated SRp38 acts as a splicing repressor in response to heat shock. Nature 427, 6974 (February 2004), 553–558.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Cordula V. Mora, Michael Davison, J. Martin Wild, and Michael M. Walker. 2004. Magnetoreception and its trigeminal mediation in the homing pigeon. Nature 432, 7016 (November 2004), 508–511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Simon Gaisford and Mark Saunders. 2012. Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Michael Paulweber. 2016. Powertrain Instrumentation and Test Systems: Development – Hybridization – Electrification. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Marzenna Anna Weresa. 2014. Policies Supporting Regional Innovation in Poland in 2014–2020: The European and National Perspective. In New Cohesion Policy of the European Union in Poland: How It Will Influence the Investment Attractiveness of Regions in 2014-2020, Adam A. Ambroziak (ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 77–89.

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]

Tom Hale. 2016. Virgin Galactic Receives License To Fly Its New Spaceship. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/virgin-galactic-receives-license-to-fly-its-new-spaceship/

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. 2002. Aviation Finance: Distribution of Airport Grant Funds Complied with Statutory Requirements. 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]

Margaux Hanes Brown. 2014. An Examination of Executive Function, Stress, and Adolescent Attachment to Caregivers in a Social Neuroscience Model Using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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]

Jack Goldsmith. 2017. Yes, We Are Holding Trump Accountable. New York Times, A23.

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