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]

John Cowan. 2007. Astronomy: a constant surprise. Nature 448, 7149 (July 2007), 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brendan Fisher and Robert Costanza. 2005. Environmental policy: regional commitment to reducing emissions. Nature 438, 7066 (November 2005), 301–302.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Silvia Corezzi, Daniele Fioretto, and Pierangelo Rolla. 2002. Bond-controlled configurational entropy reduction in chemical vitrification. Nature 420, 6916 (December 2002), 653–656.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Hongyan Cheng, Nan Yao, Zi-Gang Huang, Junpyo Park, Younghae Do, and Ying-Cheng Lai. 2014. Mesoscopic interactions and species coexistence in evolutionary game dynamics of cyclic competitions. Sci. Rep. 4, (December 2014), 7486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Roy Langton. 2006. Stability and Control of Aircraft Systems. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, England.

An edited book

[1]

Liora Israël and Guillaume Mouralis (Eds.). 2014. Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships: Legal Concepts and Categories in Action. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague.

A chapter in an edited book

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Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Roman G. Strongin, and Daniela Lera. 2013. Ideas for Acceleration. In Introduction to Global Optimization Exploiting Space-Filling Curves, Roman G. Strongin and Daniela Lera (eds.). Springer, New York, NY, 91–116.

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

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Alfredo Carpineti. 2015. Non-Toxic Flame Retardant Developed Using Compound Found In Mussels. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/non-toxic-flame-retardant-developed-using-mussels/

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. 1981. Unanswered Questions on Educating Handicapped Children in Local Public Schools. 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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Yao-Feng Huang. 2013. The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts. 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]

Michael Cooper. 2017. A Case That Reverberates In Inkblot-Like Districts. New York Times, A15.

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 [5–8].

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