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]

Simon C. Johnson. 2014. Translational Medicine. A target for pharmacological intervention in an untreatable human disease. Science 346, 6214 (December 2014), 1192.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson and Matthew E. Griffin. 2013. Chemistry. Improving biologic drugs via total chemical synthesis. Science 342, 6164 (December 2013), 1332–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Syntichaki, I. Topalidou, and G. Thireos. 2000. The Gcn5 bromodomain co-ordinates nucleosome remodelling. Nature 404, 6776 (March 2000), 414–417.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. H. Hahnloser, R. Sarpeshkar, M. A. Mahowald, R. J. Douglas, and H. S. Seung. 2000. Digital selection and analogue amplification coexist in a cortex-inspired silicon circuit. Nature 405, 6789 (June 2000), 947–951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Michael E. Edmonds, Alethea V. M. Foster, and Lee J. Sanders. 2008. A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Ying Tan, Yuhui Shi, Yi Chai, and Guoyin Wang (Eds.). 2011. Advances in Swarm Intelligence: Second International Conference, ICSI 2011, Chongqing, China, June 12-15, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sanjay S. Limaye and Miriam Rengel. 2013. Atmospheric Circulation and Dynamics. In Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus: Applications of Terrestrial Models to Our Sister Planet, Lennart Bengtsson, Roger-Maurice Bonnet, David Grinspoon, Symeon Koumoutsaris, Sebastien Lebonnois and Dmitri Titov (eds.). Springer, New York, NY, 55–70.

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]

Jonathan O`Callaghan. 2016. Juno Returns Amazing First Image Of Jupiter And Its Moons From Orbit. 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. 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]

Michelle Jackson. 2013. Creating community in a dual immersion program: A grant writing project. 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]

Linda F. Burghardt. 2005. On the Curriculum, A Palette of Choices. New York Times, 14LI20.

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, 5, 7, 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