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]

C. F. Chyba, “Atmospheric science. Rethinking Earth’s early atmosphere,” Science, vol. 308, no. 5724, pp. 962–963, May 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Alkhatib and A. Nayfeh, “A complete physical germanium-on-silicon quantum dot self-assembly process,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2099, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Marusic, R. Mathis, and N. Hutchins, “Predictive model for wall-bounded turbulent flow,” Science, vol. 329, no. 5988, pp. 193–196, Jul. 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Gambardella et al., “Surface nanostructures in manganite films,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5353, Jun. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Korhonen, T. Savolainen, and J. Soininen, Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

B. de Noya, Trypanosoma cruzi as a Foodborne Pathogen, 1st ed. 2015. 1st ed. 2015.in SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Karamolegkos, A. Maroudas, and N. Manouselis, “Application Profiling for Rural Communities: eGov Services and Training Resources in Rural Inclusion,” in Metadata and Semantic Research: 4th International Conference, MTSR 2010, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 20-22, 2010. Proceedings, S. Sánchez-Alonso and I. N. Athanasiadis, Eds., in Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp. 46–56.

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]

E. Andrew, “Is Schizophrenia A ‘Real’ Illness?,” IFLScience, Nov. 30, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/schizophrenia-real-illness/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Railroad Safety: FRA’s Staffing Model Cannot Estimate Inspectors Needed for Safety Mission,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-91-32, Nov. 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Johnson, “Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2012.

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]

S. Kelly, “Spring Children’s Books; Stuff and Nonsense,” New York Times, p. 723, May 16, 1999.

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]–[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

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