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]

H. C. J. Godfray Jr. 2007. Linnaeus in the information age. Nature 446, 7133 (March 2007), 259–260.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fei Su and Ping Xu. 2014. Genomic analysis of thermophilic Bacillus coagulans strains: efficient producers for platform bio-chemicals. Sci. Rep. 4, (January 2014), 3926.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ben Chih, Holly Engelman, and Peter Scheiffele. 2005. Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins. Science 307, 5713 (February 2005), 1324–1328.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Wolfgang Krenner, Dirk Kühne, Florian Klappenberger, and Johannes V. Barth. 2013. Assessment of scanning tunneling spectroscopy modes inspecting electron confinement in surface-confined supramolecular networks. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 1454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Francis J. Waller. 2011. Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Guido Boella, and Roberto Micalizio (Eds.). 2013. AI*IA 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: XIIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Turin, Italy, December 4-6, 2013. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Martin Ehrenschwender and Harald Wajant. 2009. The Role of FasL and Fas in Health and Disease. In Therapeutic Targets of the TNF Superfamily, Iqbal S. Grewal (ed.). Springer, New York, NY, 64–93.

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]

Alfredo Carpineti. 2016. Do You Know Which Organ This Is? 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. 2004. Student Consolidation Loans: Further Analysis Could Lead to Enhanced Default Assumptions for Budgetary Cost Estimates. 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]

Charles Chaisson. 2014. An Investigation of Lower Wilcox Group Coals in Portions of Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, Lasalle, and Rapides Parishes, Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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]

George Vecsey. 2011. Back to Brooklyn for a U.S. Eagle. New York Times, SP10.

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 [4, 5, 7, 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