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]

Gernot Frenking. 2015. Inorganic chemistry: Peculiar boron startles again. Nature 522, 7556 (June 2015), 297–298.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gernot Frenking and Nicole Holzmann. 2012. Chemistry. A boron-boron triple bond. Science 336, 6087 (June 2012), 1394–1395.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. S. Hibbett, L. B. Gilbert, and M. J. Donoghue. 2000. Evolutionary instability of ectomycorrhizal symbioses in basidiomycetes. Nature 407, 6803 (September 2000), 506–508.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Seiji Takeda, Catherine Gapper, Hidetaka Kaya, Elizabeth Bell, Kazuyuki Kuchitsu, and Liam Dolan. 2008. Local positive feedback regulation determines cell shape in root hair cells. Science 319, 5867 (February 2008), 1241–1244.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Anita R. Kiehl and Maron Brown Calderwood Mays. 2016. Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

C. Ferrari (Ed.). 2011. Dinamica dei gas rarefatti. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sergio Viademonte and Frada Burstein. 2006. From Knowledge Discovery to Computational Intelligence: A Framework for Intelligent Decision Support Systems. In Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems: Foundations, Applications and Challenges, Guisseppi A. Forgionne and Manuel Mora T. (eds.). Springer, London, 57–78.

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]

Elise Andrew. 2015. Huge Exploding Stars can be Powered by the Strongest Magnets. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/magnetar-powers-supernova/

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. 1995. School Facilities: States’ Financial and Technical Support Varies. 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]

Rosalyn Harper Goodwin. 2013. Case study of the voluntary student transfer program: The perspectives of African American students and parent participants in one midwestern school district. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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]

James Wagner. 2017. Bullpen Surrenders Wheeler’s Lead, but the Mets Prevail. New York Times, B15.

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, 4, 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