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

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

Rees Kassen. 2011. If you want to win the game, you must join in. Nature 480, 7376 (December 2011), 153.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Luke Wiseman and Jeffery W. Kelly. 2011. Cell biology. Phosphatase inhibition delays translational recovery. Science 332, 6025 (April 2011), 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yun Zhao, Chao Tong, and Jin Jiang. 2007. Hedgehog regulates smoothened activity by inducing a conformational switch. Nature 450, 7167 (November 2007), 252–258.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Kemper, C. Jäger, L. B. F. M. Waters, Th Henning, F. J. Molster, M. J. Barlow, T. Lim, and A. de Koter. 2002. Detection of carbonates in dust shells around evolved stars. Nature 415, 6869 (January 2002), 295–297.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Andrew Fight. 2004. Understanding International Bank Risk. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Witold Gutkowski and Tomasz A. Kowalewski (Eds.). 2005. Mechanics of the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland, 15–21 August 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jorge L. Alió, Amar Agarwal, and Pawel Klonowski. 2010. 0.7 mm Microincision Cataract Surgery. In Minimizing Incisions and Maximizing Outcomes in Cataract Surgery, Jorge L. Alió and I. Howard Fine (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 13–23.

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 Accessible Computing.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2015. Asthma Rates Falling But Eczema And Hay Fever Stand Still. What Does This Tell Us About Allergies? IFLScience.

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. 1994. Space Shuttle: Incomplete Data and Funding Approach Increase Cost Risk for Upgrade Program. 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]

Melissa Lambert. 2015. Generational Differences in the Workplace: The Perspectives of Three Generations on Career Mobility. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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 Gurley. 2016. Where Everybody Knows Your Name and Accepts Your Politics. New York Times, D4.

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 [2, 5, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Access. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1936-7228
ISSN (online)	1936-7236
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