How to format your references using the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Andrew B. Smith. 2003. Paleontology. Making the best of a patchy fossil record. Science 301, 5631 (July 2003), 321–322.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Savill and V. Fadok. 2000. Corpse clearance defines the meaning of cell death. Nature 407, 6805 (October 2000), 784–788.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Helen Hwang, Patricia Opresko, and Sua Myong. 2014. Single-molecule real-time detection of telomerase extension activity. Sci. Rep. 4, (September 2014), 6391.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Stefan Leutgeb, Jill K. Leutgeb, Alessandro Treves, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser. 2004. Distinct ensemble codes in hippocampal areas CA3 and CA1. Science 305, 5688 (August 2004), 1295–1298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

The Family Firm Institute, Inc. 2013. Family Enterprise. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti, Jaime Klapp, and Eloy Sira (Eds.). 2014. Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Applications to Physics, Engineering and the Environment. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

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Johann Ev Hafner. 2011. Hermann Grassmann’s theory of religion and faith. In From Past to Future: Graßmann’s Work in Context: Graßmann Bicentennial Conference, September 2009, Hans-Joachim Petsche, Albert C. Lewis, Jörg Liesen and Steve Russ (eds.). Springer, Basel, 37–47.

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 Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Janet Fang. 2014. Caught on Camera: Sword-Wielding Sailfish Slashing Sardines. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/caught-camera-sword-wielding-sailfish-slashing-sardines/

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. 2007. Rail Safety: The Federal Railroad Administration Is Taking Steps to Better Target Its Oversight, but Assessment of Results Is Needed to Determine Impact. 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

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Rodney A. Slaughter. 2017. Tradition and Progress: California Fire Technology Directors Beliefs and Values. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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]

Ben Kenigsberg. 2017. Lemon. New York Times, C6.

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 [4, 6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
Abbreviation	ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1550-4832
ISSN (online)	1550-4840
Scope