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]

Hitoshi Kawakatsu. 2012. Geophysics. At the bottom of the oceanic plate. Science 335, 6075 (March 2012), 1448–1449.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Auer and D. Frenkel. 2001. Suppression of crystal nucleation in polydisperse colloids due to increase of the surface free energy. Nature 413, 6857 (October 2001), 711–713.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Paul J. Durack, Susan E. Wijffels, and Richard J. Matear. 2012. Ocean salinities reveal strong global water cycle intensification during 1950 to 2000. Science 336, 6080 (April 2012), 455–458.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Scott Ramsey, Magdalene M. Moran, Jayhong A. Chong, and David E. Clapham. 2006. A voltage-gated proton-selective channel lacking the pore domain. Nature 440, 7088 (April 2006), 1213–1216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Patricia Frank and M. Alice Ottoboni. 2011. The Dose Makes the Poison. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Shipeng Li, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Meng Wang, Tao Mei, Nicu Sebe, Shuicheng Yan, Richang Hong, and Cathal Gurrin (Eds.). 2013. Advances in Multimedia Modeling: 19th International Conference, MMM 2013, Huangshan, China, January 7-9, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Thorsten Hens and Marc Oliver Rieger. 2016. Two-Period Model: State-Preference Approach. In Financial Economics: A Concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance, Marc Oliver Rieger (ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 139–209.

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. 2016. Seven Hard Facts We All Need To Swallow About Antibiotics. 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 Challenge: Federal Efforts to Ensure Continued Delivery of Key State-Administered Benefits. 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]

Christian Salcedo Ward. 2012. Movin’ Around. 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]

Melissa Eddy and James Kanter. 2016. Backlash Over Remarks by German E.U. Official. New York Times, A9.

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 [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 5, 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