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]

John A. Gerlt. 2007. Obituary: Frank H. Westheimer (1912-2007). Nature 447, 7144 (May 2007), 543.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jeffrey T. Leek and Roger D. Peng. 2015. Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg. Nature 520, 7549 (April 2015), 612.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Piotr Jankowski, A. R. W. McKellar, and Krzysztof Szalewicz. 2012. Theory untangles the high-resolution infrared spectrum of the ortho-H2-CO van der Waals complex. Science 336, 6085 (June 2012), 1147–1150.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. van Zoest, N. Gaaloul, Y. Singh, H. Ahlers, W. Herr, S. T. Seidel, W. Ertmer, E. Rasel, M. Eckart, E. Kajari, S. Arnold, G. Nandi, W. P. Schleich, R. Walser, A. Vogel, K. Sengstock, K. Bongs, W. Lewoczko-Adamczyk, M. Schiemangk, T. Schuldt, A. Peters, T. Könemann, H. Müntinga, C. Lämmerzahl, H. Dittus, T. Steinmetz, T. W. Hänsch, and J. Reichel. 2010. Bose-Einstein condensation in microgravity. Science 328, 5985 (June 2010), 1540–1543.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). 2011. Supplemental Proceedings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Paolo Pavone. 2009. CT Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Eliane Regina Rodrigues and Jorge Alberto Achcar. 2013. Modeling the Time Between Ozone Exceedances. In Applications of Discrete-time Markov Chains and Poisson Processes to Air Pollution Modeling and Studies, Jorge Alberto Achcar (ed.). Springer, New York, NY, 65–78.

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 Management Information Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Katy Evans. 2017. NASA Reveals Very Cool Concept For Ice Homes On Mars. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-reveals-very-cool-concept-for-ice-homes-on-mars/

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. 2000. Gender Equity: Men’s and Women’s Participation in Higher Education. 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]

Bojan Belic. 2005. Complement Verb Variation in Present-Day Serbian. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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]

Mary K. Reinhart. 2010. Kathryn Bertine and George Varhola Jr. New York Times, ST14.

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, 5, 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