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]

Paul Smaglik. 2003. Out in the cold. Nature 421, 6918 (January 2003), 95.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hannah Thompson and Abigail S. Tucker. 2013. Dual origin of the epithelium of the mammalian middle ear. Science 339, 6126 (March 2013), 1453–1456.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Michael Beman, Kevin R. Arrigo, and Pamela A. Matson. 2005. Agricultural runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean. Nature 434, 7030 (March 2005), 211–214.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Christoph, M. Chebbok, C. Richter, J. Schröder-Schetelig, P. Bittihn, S. Stein, I. Uzelac, F. H. Fenton, G. Hasenfuß, R. F. Gilmour Jr, and S. Luther. 2018. Electromechanical vortex filaments during cardiac fibrillation. Nature 555, 7698 (March 2018), 667–672.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Beth S. Brodsky and Barbara Stanley. 2013. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Primer. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Carlos Cotta and Peter Cowling (Eds.). 2009. Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 9th European Conference, EvoCOP 2009, Tübingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ruimin Hu, Shi Dong, Heng Wang, Maosheng Zhang, Song Wang, and Dengshi Li. 2013. Perceptual Characteristic and Compression Research in 3D Audio Technology. In From Sounds to Music and Emotions: 9th International Symposium, CMMR 2012, London, UK, June 19-22, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Mitsuko Aramaki, Mathieu Barthet, Richard Kronland-Martinet and Sølvi Ystad (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 82–98.

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]

Ben Taub. 2016. How Well You Do In School Depends More On Your DNA Than Your Determination, Study Finds. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-well-you-do-school-depends-more-your-dna-than-your-determination-study-finds/

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. 1999. Transportation Infrastructure: Impacts of Utility Relocations on Highway and Bridge Projects. 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]

Gennay Monique Banks. 2009. The revolution will not be gender-ized. 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]

George Gene Gustines. 2016. Comic Book Looks at Harsh Life in Syria. New York Times, C3.

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 Storage
ISSN (print)	1553-3077
ISSN (online)	1553-3093
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