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]

B. Richmond. 2001. Neuroscience. Information coding. Science 294, 5551 (December 2001), 2493–2494.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Julia Lane and Stefano Bertuzzi. 2011. Research funding. Measuring the results of science investments. Science 331, 6018 (February 2011), 678–680.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rachel A. Wood, John P. Grotzinger, and J. A. D. Dickson. 2002. Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science 296, 5577 (June 2002), 2383–2386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O. Craig, J. Mulville, M. P. Pearson, R. Sokol, K. Gelsthorpe, R. Stacey, and M. Collins. 2000. Detecting milk proteins in ancient pots. Nature 408, 6810 (November 2000), 312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

James L. Johnson. 1997. Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Kimon P. Valavanis (Ed.). 2007. Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Junaid Mughal, and Qaisar Abbas Naqvi. 2012. Electromagnetic Radiations from Sources in Fractional Space. In Electromagnetic Fields and Waves in Fractional Dimensional Space, Muhammad Junaid Mughal and Qaisar Abbas Naqvi (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 61–67.

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]

Danielle Andrew. 2016. How An Old Antidepressant Could Provide The Next Brain Cancer Breakthrough. 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. Amtrak: Limited Income From the Revenue Enhancement Program. 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]

Anli Ouyang. 2006. Embryonic Stem Cell Culture in Fibrous Bed Bioreactor. 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]

Linda Saslow. 2008. SAILING. New York Times, LI8.

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 Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
ISSN (print)	1551-6857
ISSN (online)	1551-6865
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture