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

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Michael H. Hastings. 2013. Physiology. A looser clock to cure jet lag. Science 342, 6154 (October 2013), 52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Andrea Burke and Laura F. Robinson. 2012. The Southern Ocean’s role in carbon exchange during the last deglaciation. Science 335, 6068 (February 2012), 557–561.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Daniel G. Boyce, Marlon R. Lewis, and Boris Worm. 2010. Global phytoplankton decline over the past century. Nature 466, 7306 (July 2010), 591–596.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Ekaterina Likhtik, Daniela Popa, John Apergis-Schoute, George A. Fidacaro, and Denis Paré. 2008. Amygdala intercalated neurons are required for expression of fear extinction. Nature 454, 7204 (July 2008), 642–645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Lois Potter. 2012. The Life of William Shakespeare. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

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Raghu Murali (Ed.). 2012. Graphene Nanoelectronics: From Materials to Circuits. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

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Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev. 2015. The Great Convergence and Globalization: How Former Colonies Became the World Economic Locomotives. In Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective, Andrey Korotayev (ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 115–158.

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

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Elise Andrew. 2015. Smoking Pot Could Make You More Prone To False Memories. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/smoking-pot-could-make-you-more-prone-false-memories/

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

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Government Accountability Office. 1991. Social Security Downsizing: Significant Savings but Some Service Quality and Operational Problems. 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

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Latasha Irene Jackson. 2017. Empowering African American Youth Who Live in Foster Care: A Grant Proposal. 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

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Linda Greenhouse. 2008. JUSTICES, RULING 5-4, ENDORSE PERSONAL RIGHT TO OWN GUN. New York Times, A1.

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 [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