How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP). 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]

Jeffrey Beall. 2012. Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature 489, 7415 (September 2012), 179.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

X. H. Deng and H. Matsumoto. 2001. Rapid magnetic reconnection in the Earth’s magnetosphere mediated by whistler waves. Nature 410, 6828 (March 2001), 557–560.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stella Hurtley, Caroline Ash, and Leslie Roberts. 2010. Tuberculosis & malaria. Landscapes of infection. Introduction. Science 328, 5980 (May 2010), 841.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. M. Graves, H. I. Guy, P. Kozlowski, M. Huang, E. Lazarowski, R. M. Pope, M. A. Collins, E. N. Dahlstrand, H. S. Earp 3rd, and D. R. Evans. 2000. Regulation of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase by MAP kinase. Nature 403, 6767 (January 2000), 328–332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Theodore Millon and Seth Grossman. 2007. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Lianyong Feng. 2013. The Chinese Oil Industry: History and Future. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Darrell Fox. 2016. Canada: Community, Reintegration, Restoration and Aboriginal Responses. In Cultural Perspectives on Youth Justice: Connecting Theory, Policy and International Practice, Elaine Arnull and Darrell Fox (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 111–130.

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 Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2015. Seahorses’ Tails May Inspire Future Robotics. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robots-may-be-inspired-seahorses-tails/

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. 2012. Commuter Rail: Potential Impacts and Cost Estimates for the Cancelled Hudson River Tunnel Project. 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]

Steven B. Kim. 2010. Model uncertainty and model averaging in the estimation of benchmark dose. 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]

Caitlin Kelly. 2007. From Town’s First Female Officer to County’s First Female Police Chief. New York Times, WE5.

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, 4, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
ISSN (print)	1551-6857
ISSN (online)	1551-6865
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture