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]

Roger N. Clark. 2009. Detection of adsorbed water and hydroxyl on the Moon. Science 326, 5952 (October 2009), 562–564.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Konstantin E. Dorfman and Shaul Mukamel. 2014. Indistinguishability and correlations of photons generated by quantum emitters undergoing spectral diffusion. Sci. Rep. 4, (February 2014), 3996.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Giuseppe Lia, Bénédicte Michel, and Jean-François Allemand. 2012. Polymerase exchange during Okazaki fragment synthesis observed in living cells. Science 335, 6066 (January 2012), 328–331.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Fernando Gonzalez, Agnes Delahodde, Thomas Kodadek, and Stephen Albert Johnston. 2002. Recruitment of a 19S proteasome subcomplex to an activated promoter. Science 296, 5567 (April 2002), 548–550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

David A. Chin. 2006. Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Kazuhiko Nakatani and Yitzhak Tor (Eds.). 2016. Modified Nucleic Acids. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Andrew Whiten. 2016. The Evolution of Hominin Culture and Its Ancient Pre-hominin Foundations. In The Nature of Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany, Miriam N. Haidle, Nicholas J. Conard and Michael Bolus (eds.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 27–39.

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. The Oceans Are Becoming Too Hot For Coral, And Sooner Than We Expected. 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. 2013. Biomedical Research: NIH Should Assess the Impact of Growth in Indirect Costs on Its Mission. 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]

Stephanie Tamara Mihalas. 2008. Positive protective factors as moderators in the relationship between relational victimization and depression in minority adolescents. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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]

Michael Corkery. 2017. Betty Dukes, Who Sued Walmart On Behalf of Workers, Is Dead at 67. 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 [2,4,7,8].

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

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