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 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]

Bob Watson. 2008. Obituary: Bert Bolin (1925-2008). Nature 451, 7179 (February 2008), 642.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cory D. Cress and Suman Datta. 2013. Engineering. Nanoscale transistors--just around the gate? Science 341, 6142 (July 2013), 140–141.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nicholas R. Longrich, Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, and Jacques A. Gauthier. 2012. A transitional snake from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. Nature 488, 7410 (August 2012), 205–208.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Kartsev, D. Karlsson, A. Privitera, and C. Verdozzi. 2013. Three-dimensional dynamics of a fermionic Mott wedding-cake in clean and disordered optical lattices. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 2570.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Graham J.G. Upton. 2016. Categorical Data Analysis by Example. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Yves Fouquet and Denis Lacroix (Eds.). 2014. Deep Marine Mineral Resources. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nunnapus Benjamas and Putchong Uthayopas. 2009. An Impact of Scheduling Strategy to Parallel FI-Growth Data Mining Algorithm. In Advances in Information Technology: Third International Conference, IAIT 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-5, 2009. Proceedings, Borworn Papasratorn, Wichian Chutimaskul, Kriengkrai Porkaew and Vajirasak Vanijja (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 39–47.

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]

Elise Andrew. 2015. How To Take The Pressure Off The Cost Of Our Water Supply. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-take-pressure-cost-our-water-supply/

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. 1992. The First Step Toward Reform. 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]

Laura Jeanine Jones. 2017. From Corbin and Hillman to Dionysos: The Partial Unveiling of Psyche’s Stage. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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]

Tim Arango and Michael R. Gordon. 2017. ISIS Is Routed As Iraqi Forces Reclaim Mosul. 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 [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 6–8].

About the journal

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