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]

I. Glynn. 2001. An intriguing door. Nature 413, 6857 (October 2001), 683.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lauren M. Mashburn and Marvin Whiteley. 2005. Membrane vesicles traffic signals and facilitate group activities in a prokaryote. Nature 437, 7057 (September 2005), 422–425.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Tanabe, N. Sakihama, and A. Kaneko. 2004. Stable SNPs in malaria antigen genes in isolated populations. Science 303, 5657 (January 2004), 493.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Alejo Efeyan, Isabel Garcia-Cao, Daniel Herranz, Susana Velasco-Miguel, and Manuel Serrano. 2006. Tumour biology: Policing of oncogene activity by p53. Nature 443, 7108 (September 2006), 159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

James Bao-Yen Tsui. 2004. Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Molly Blackley Jackson, Somnath Mookherjee, and Nason P. Hamlin (Eds.). 2015. The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook (Second Edition ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Balázs Györffy. 2007. Resistance-Associated Signatures in Breast Cancer. In Targeted Therapies in Cancer, Manfred Dietel (ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 37–50.

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]

Danielle Andrew. 2016. The Future Of Brain And Machine Is Intertwined, And It’s Already Here. 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. 1980. Use of Computerized Information for Local and National Health Care Planning Purposes. 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]

Jessica Sevier. 2013. A preventative and treatment substance use program for GLBT adolescents in Long Beach: A grant proposal. 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]

Kelly Whiteside. 2016. After a Flat Tire, Finding Kindness, if Not a Spare. New York Times, B7.

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 [3, 5, 7, 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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