How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS). 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]

Martin Robbins. 2011. Policy: Fuelling politics. Nature 474, 7352 (June 2011), S22-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Martin Roeb and Christian Sattler. 2013. Chemistry. Isothermal water splitting. Science 341, 6145 (August 2013), 470–471.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Peter Bauer, Alan Thorpe, and Gilbert Brunet. 2015. The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction. Nature 525, 7567 (September 2015), 47–55.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Seo, C. Hong, S-Y Lee, H. K. Choi, N. Kim, Y. Chung, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu. 2014. Multi-valued logic gates based on ballistic transport in quantum point contacts. Sci. Rep. 4, (January 2014), 3806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Barbara Stuart. 2012. Forensic Analytical Techniques: Stuart/Forensic Analytical Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Alexander G. Grankov. 2016. Microwave Radiation of the Ocean-Atmosphere: Boundary Heat and Dynamic Interaction (2nd ed. 2016 ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. A. Brain. 2007. Mars Global Surveyor Measurements of the Martian Solar Wind Interaction. In The Mars Plasma Environment, C. T. Russell (ed.). Springer, New York, NY, 77–112.

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 Management Information Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Ben Taub. 2016. Lab-Grown Corneas Could Help Fight Blindness. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lab-grown-corneas-help-fight-blindness/

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. 1979. GAO’s Need for an Interim Management Data System (MDS). 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]

Maurice Davis. 2015. Opprobrious Identities: The Enslaving Effect of Black Respectability on Queer Black Men. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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]

John Koblin and Nick Corasaniti. 2017. One Nation, Under Fox. New York Times, A18.

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 [4–6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Manag. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2158-656X
ISSN (online)	2158-6578
Scope	Management Information Systems General Computer Science