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]

Tony Scully. 2013. Sleep. Nature 497, 7450 (May 2013), S1-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jonas O. Wolff and Stanislav N. Gorb. 2013. Radial arrangement of Janus-like setae permits friction control in spiders. Sci. Rep. 3, (January 2013), 1101.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Preeti Nandal, Sreenivas Rao Ravella, and Ramesh Chander Kuhad. 2013. Laccase production by Coriolopsis caperata RCK2011: optimization under solid state fermentation by Taguchi DOE methodology. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 1386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Elizabeth Hinde, Kyoko Yokomori, Katharina Gaus, Klaus M. Hahn, and Enrico Gratton. 2014. Fluctuation-based imaging of nuclear Rac1 activation by protein oligomerisation. Sci. Rep. 4, (February 2014), 4219.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vladimir S. Bagotsky, Alexander M. Skundin, and Yurij M. Volfkovich. 2014. Electrochemical Power Sources. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Brett W. Clark (Ed.). 2009. Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rajanish K. Kamat, Santhosh A. Shinde, and Vinod G. Shelake. 2009. Combinational Logic Design. In Unleash the System On Chip using FPGAs and Handel C, Santhosh A. Shinde and Vinod G. Shelake (eds.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 61–79.

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]

Kristy Hamilton. 2015. Humpback Whale Breaches Practically On Top Of Kayakers. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/close-call-humpback-whale-breaches-right-next-kayakers/

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. 1978. Improvement of Certain Management Areas. 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]

Tomasz Maria Kott. 2012. Measurements of correlated two-dimensional electrons in the lowest Landau level on silicon(111). Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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]

Alexandra Stevenson and Matthew Goldstein. 2016. Fund Manager Facing Charges Is Found Dead at Home. New York Times, B3.

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 Speech and Language Processing
ISSN (print)	1550-4875
ISSN (online)	1550-4883
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