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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB). 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]

G. Schilling. 2000. ASTRONOMY: Neighborhood Gamma Ray Burst Boosts Theory. Science 289, 5476 (July 2000), 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zu-Wen Sun and C. David Allis. 2002. Ubiquitination of histone H2B regulates H3 methylation and gene silencing in yeast. Nature 418, 6893 (July 2002), 104–108.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Elaine A. Elion, Maosong Qi, and Weidong Chen. 2005. Signal transduction. Signaling specificity in yeast. Science 307, 5710 (February 2005), 687–688.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Christine M. Fillmore, Chunxiao Xu, Pooja T. Desai, Joanne M. Berry, Samuel P. Rowbotham, Yi-Jang Lin, Haikuo Zhang, Victor E. Marquez, Peter S. Hammerman, Kwok-Kin Wong, and Carla F. Kim. 2018. Author Correction: EZH2 inhibition sensitizes BRG1 and EGFR mutant lung tumours to TopoII inhibitors. Nature 563, 7732 (November 2018), E27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dan Schwartz. 2010. The Future of Finance. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809.

An edited book

[1]

Polina Golland, Nobuhiko Hata, Christian Barillot, Joachim Hornegger, and Robert Howe (Eds.). 2014. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014: 17th International Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-18, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jean Gerrath, Usher Posluszny, and Lewis Melville. 2015. Humans and Grapes. In Taming the Wild Grape: Botany and Horticulture in the Vitaceae, Usher Posluszny and Lewis Melville (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 103–114.

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 the Web.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2014. Antioxidant Reverses Vascular Aging In Mice. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antioxidant-reverses-vascular-aging-mice/

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. 1998. FCC: Service and Auction Rules for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Frequency Band. 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]

Carolyn L. Millar. 2010. Re-specting graffiti: Transgression at play in art, language, and ritual. 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]

Kelly Crow. 2000. Homeless Take Control of Their Lives on the Web. New York Times, 145.

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 [4, 6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on the Web
ISSN (print)	1559-1131
ISSN (online)	1559-114X
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications