How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP). 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]

Caitlin Smith. 2004. Drug discovery in reverse. Nature 428, 6979 (March 2004), 227.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Robert B. Best and Gerhard Hummer. 2009. Biochemistry. Unfolding the secrets of calmodulin. Science 323, 5914 (January 2009), 593–594.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nick J. Royle, Andrew F. Russell, and Alastair J. Wilson. 2014. The evolution of flexible parenting. Science 345, 6198 (August 2014), 776–781.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Iñigo Martincorena, Joanna C. Fowler, Agnieszka Wabik, Andrew R. J. Lawson, Federico Abascal, Michael W. J. Hall, Alex Cagan, Kasumi Murai, Krishnaa Mahbubani, Michael R. Stratton, Rebecca C. Fitzgerald, Penny A. Handford, Peter J. Campbell, Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, and Philip H. Jones. 2018. Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age. Science 362, 6417 (November 2018), 911–917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Markus P. Eichhorn. 2016. Natural Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

J. C. Zhang. 2011. Theory and Practice of Soil Loss Control in Eastern China. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

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Maria Cristina D. M. Carambas. 2007. Economic Analysis of Eco-Labeling: The Case of Labeled Organic Rice in Thailand. In New Frontiers in Environmental and Social Labeling, Ulrike Grote, Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. Chau (eds.). Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, 83–109.

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 Asian Language Information Processing.

Blog post

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Jonathan O`Callaghan. 2017. First Images Released From Survey Of 100 Million Galaxies And Stars. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-images-released-from-survey-of-100-million-galaxies-and-stars/

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

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Government Accountability Office. 1986. University Finances: Research Revenues and Expenditures. 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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Jennifer E. Whited. 2015. An Investigation of Struggling Learners’ Motivation to Read. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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 Feeney. 2011. Sip, Munch and Cheer. New York Times, NJ10.

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 [3, 6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process.
ISSN (print)	1530-0226
ISSN (online)	1558-3430
Scope