How to format your references using the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. 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]

M. L. Littman, “Reinforcement learning improves behaviour from evaluative feedback,” Nature, vol. 521, no. 7553, pp. 445–451, May 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Park and M. I. Kuroda, “Epigenetic aspects of X-chromosome dosage compensation,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5532, pp. 1083–1085, Aug. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.-Z. Zhu, G. Radtke, and G. A. Botton, “Bonding and structure of a reconstructed (001) surface of SrTiO3 from TEM,” Nature, vol. 490, no. 7420, pp. 384–387, Oct. 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. B. Perea et al., “Identification and dynamics of polyglycine II nanocrystals in Argiope trifasciata flagelliform silk,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3061, Oct. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. El-Haik and D. M. Roy, Service Design for Six Sigma. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

J.-L. Vincent, Ed., Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2012, vol. 2012. in Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol. 2012. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Porwit, “The Expanding Diagnostic Role of Flow Cytometry in Bone Marrow Studies of Patients with Lymphomas and Plasma Cell Disorders,” in Bone Marrow Lymphoid Infiltrates: Diagnosis and Clinical Impact, D. Anagnostou and E. Matutes, Eds., London: Springer, 2012, pp. 47–65.

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 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, “Apollo Computer Engineer Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal Of Freedom,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/margaret-hamilton-presidential-medal-of-freedom/

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, “Highlights of a GAO Forum: The Federal Government’s Role in Improving Financial Literacy,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-05-93SP, Nov. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Gowda, “Pollination biology and inter-island geographical variation in the mutualistic Heliconia (Heliconiaceae)-hummingbird (Trochilidae) interaction of the Eastern Caribbean Islands,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2009.

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]

P. Cohen, “Storms Lead Jobs to Fall; First Decline In 7 Years,” New York Times, p. B1, Oct. 06, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Abbreviation	IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.
ISSN (print)	2329-9290
Scope	Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering Media Technology Acoustics and Ultrasonics Instrumentation Linguistics and Language Speech and Hearing