How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS). 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]

C. Robertson McClung. 2009. Circadian rhythms. Linking the loops. Science 323, 5920 (March 2009), 1440–1441.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

John R. Marler and Larry B. Goldstein. 2003. Medicine. Stroke--tPA and the clinic. Science 301, 5640 (September 2003), 1677.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Samantha E. Forde, John N. Thompson, and Brendan J. M. Bohannan. 2004. Adaptation varies through space and time in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction. Nature 431, 7010 (October 2004), 841–844.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Petr Janata, Jeffrey L. Birk, John D. Van Horn, Marc Leman, Barbara Tillmann, and Jamshed J. Bharucha. 2002. The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music. Science 298, 5601 (December 2002), 2167–2170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ruey-Bing Raybeam Hwang. 2012. Periodic Structures. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

[1]

George Z. Voyiadjis. 2008. Elasto-Plastic and Damage Analysis of Plates and Shells. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dheeraj Singh, M. K. Choudhary, M. L. Meena, and M. M. Roy. 2016. Oran Dynamics: A Community-Based Biodiversity Management System in India’s Arid Zone. In Dryland Forests: Management and Social Diversity in Africa and Asia, Purabi Bose and Han van Dijk (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 73–93.

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 Modeling and Computer Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

Ben Taub. 2015. Indonesian Forest Fires Expected To Generate Increase In Human-Animal Conflicts. 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. 1990. Commerce ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. 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]

Michelle Aguilar. 2010. Latina single mothers: Perspectives on parenting. 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]

J. O. Becker, Adam Goldman, and Matt Apuzzo. 2017. Emails Disclose Trump Son’s Glee at Russian Offer. 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 Modeling and Computer Simulation
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul.
ISSN (print)	1049-3301
ISSN (online)	1558-1195
Scope