How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). 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]

Veronique Buat. 2015. Astrophysics: Dust-poor galaxies at early times. Nature 522, 7557 (June 2015), 422–423.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hsin-I Yang and Fan-Gang Zeng. 2013. Reduced acoustic and electric integration in concurrent-vowel recognition. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 1419.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Song Xue, Kate Calvin, and Hong Li. 2006. RNA recognition and cleavage by a splicing endonuclease. Science 312, 5775 (May 2006), 906–910.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Emily R. Cooper, Christopher D. Andrews, Paul S. Wheatley, Paul B. Webb, Philip Wormald, and Russell E. Morris. 2004. Ionic liquids and eutectic mixtures as solvent and template in synthesis of zeolite analogues. Nature 430, 7003 (August 2004), 1012–1016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Luca Bertolini, Bernhard Elsener, Pietro Pedeferri, and Rob B. Polder. 2003. Corrosion of Steel in Concrete. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

[1]

Klaus Mathis and Avishalom Tor (Eds.). 2016. Nudging - Possibilities, Limitations and Applications in European Law and Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ton J. Cleophas and Aeilko H. Zwinderman. 2012. Log Likelihood Ratio Tests for Safety Data Analysis. In Statistics Applied to Clinical Studies, Aeilko H. Zwinderman (ed.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 61–68.

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 Knowledge Discovery from Data.

Blog post

[1]

Janet Fang. 2015. New Brain Map Reveals Unknown Cell Types. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-brain-map-reveals-unknown-cell-types-mice/

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. 2009. National Transportation System: Options and Analytical Tools to Strengthen DOT’s Approach to Supporting Communities’ Access to the System. 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]

Angelique T. Flores. 2013. Children, incarcerated mothers and the child welfare system: A systematic review of the literature. 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]

Linda F. Burghardt. 2006. An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times, 14WC5.

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 Knowledge Discovery from Data
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data
ISSN (print)	1556-4681
ISSN (online)	1556-472X
Scope