How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP). 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]

Allison M. Macfarlane. 2011. Nuclear policy. The overlooked back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Science 333, 6047 (September 2011), 1225–1226.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kim Sneppen and Szabolcs Semsey. 2014. Mismatch repair at stop codons is directed independent of GATC methylation on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Sci. Rep. 4, (December 2014), 7346.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Benjamin Ng, Wenju Cai, and Kevin Walsh. 2014. The role of the SST-thermocline relationship in Indian Ocean Dipole skewness and its response to global warming. Sci. Rep. 4, (August 2014), 6034.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Ofer Yizhar, Lief E. Fenno, Matthias Prigge, Franziska Schneider, Thomas J. Davidson, Daniel J. O’Shea, Vikaas S. Sohal, Inbal Goshen, Joel Finkelstein, Jeanne T. Paz, Katja Stehfest, Roman Fudim, Charu Ramakrishnan, John R. Huguenard, Peter Hegemann, and Karl Deisseroth. 2011. Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social dysfunction. Nature 477, 7363 (July 2011), 171–178.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Qing K. Zhu. 2005. Power Distribution Network Design For VLSI. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Thomas Kühne (Ed.). 2007. Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2006, Genoa, Italy, October 1-6, 2006, Reports and Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Akim Demaille. 2016. Derived-Term Automata of Multitape Rational Expressions. In Implementation and Application of Automata: 21st International Conference, CIAA 2016, Seoul, South Korea, July 19-22, 2016, Proceedings, Yo-Sub Han and Kai Salomaa (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 51–63.

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 Speech and Language Processing.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2016. How To Run A Marathon (Hint: It’s All In The Mind). 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. 2016. Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Develop and Manage Information Technology to Meet the Government’s Needs. 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]

Luis Stephan Leal. 2016. Pair correlations in clean magnetic Josephson junctions. 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]

Adam Nossiter and Rick Gladstone. 2015. Series of Shootings and Blasts, Apparently Coordinated. New York Times, A1.

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, 5, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
ISSN (print)	1550-4875
ISSN (online)	1550-4883
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