How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS). 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]

James P. Morken. 2014. Organic chemistry: Catalysis marches on. Nature 508, 7496 (April 2014), 324–325.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mircea Raşa and Albert P. Philipse. 2004. Evidence for a macroscopic electric field in the sedimentation profiles of charged colloids. Nature 429, 6994 (June 2004), 857–860.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. H. Morais-Cabral, Y. Zhou, and R. MacKinnon. 2001. Energetic optimization of ion conduction rate by the K+ selectivity filter. Nature 414, 6859 (November 2001), 37–42.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Alberto Moldón, Jordi Malapeira, Natalia Gabrielli, Madelaine Gogol, Blanca Gómez-Escoda, Tsvetomira Ivanova, Chris Seidel, and José Ayté. 2008. Promoter-driven splicing regulation in fission yeast. Nature 455, 7215 (October 2008), 997–1000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tamer Khatib and Wilfried Elmenreich. 2016. Modeling of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB ®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Farrukh Mukhamedov. 2015. Quantum Quadratic Operators and Processes (1st ed. 2015 ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ali Anari and James W. Kolari. 2010. Profit System Models for Industries. In The Power of Profit: Business and Economic Analyses, Forecasting, and Stock Valuation, James W. Kolari (ed.). Springer US, Boston, MA, 95–117.

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 Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Janet Fang. 2015. Jupiter Was A Wrecking Ball That Smashed Through Early Solar System. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/early-jupiter-was-wrecking-ball-smashed-through-baby-super-earths/

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. 2010. Aviation and the Environment: Systematically Addressing Environmental Impacts and Community Concerns Can Help Airports Reduce Project Delays. 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]

Saira Z. Naqvi. 2017. Around the world in 15 bites: Applied perspectives on learning about food. 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 Greenhouse. 2006. Justices Decline Church-State Case Involving a Kindergarten Poster of Jesus. New York Times, A23.

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 Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1936-7406
ISSN (online)	1936-7414
Scope	General Computer Science