How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Storage citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

P. Smaglik. 2000. Climate change expert stirs new controversy. Nature 407, 6800 (September 2000), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Connie Cepko and Claudio Punzo. 2015. Cell metabolism: Sugar for sight. Nature 522, 7557 (June 2015), 428–429.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pradeep K. Aggarwal, Asish R. Basu, and Kshitij M. Kulkarni. 2003. Comment on “Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh” (I). Science 300, 5619 (April 2003), 584; author reply 584.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Xiaodong Zou, Tony Conradsson, Miia Klingstedt, Mike S. Dadachov, and Michael O’Keeffe. 2005. A mesoporous germanium oxide with crystalline pore walls and its chiral derivative. Nature 437, 7059 (September 2005), 716–719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Leonardo Marroni and Irene Perdomo. 2013. Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Jiadong Sun, Wenhai Jiao, Haitao Wu, and Chuang Shi (Eds.). 2013. China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2013 Proceedings: BeiDou/GNSS Navigation Applications • Test & Assessment Technology • User Terminal Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Julia Langbein. 2009. The Transnationalization of Change in Economic Institutions: The Case of Industrial Standards Regulations in Ukraine. In The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies: New Challenges for Governance in Europe, Laszlo Bruszt and Ronald Holzhacker (eds.). Springer US, New York, NY, 107–133.

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 Storage.

Blog post

[1]

Josh Davis. 2016. Vast Annual Migration Of Insects Across The UK Recorded At High Altitude. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vast-annual-migration-of-insects-across-the-uk-recorded-at-high-altitude/

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. University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated. 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]

Daniel Adam Drake. 2013. Viscoelastic characterization of vapor-grown carbon nanofiber/vinyl ester nanocomposites using a response surface methodology. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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]

James Poniewozik. 2017. Will He Let Loose the Hounds? New York Times, C5.

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 [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [4–6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Storage
ISSN (print)	1553-3077
ISSN (online)	1553-3093
Scope