How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES). 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]

Andreas J. Heinrich. 2009. Applied physics. Looking below the surface. Science 323, 5918 (February 2009), 1178–1179.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Eckard Münck and Emile L. Bominaar. 2008. Chemistry. Bringing stability to highly reduced iron-sulfur clusters. Science 321, 5895 (September 2008), 1452–1453.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jandy B. Hanna, Daniel Schmitt, and Timothy M. Griffin. 2008. The energetic cost of climbing in primates. Science 320, 5878 (May 2008), 898.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Jean-Pierre Vartanian, Denise Guétard, Michel Henry, and Simon Wain-Hobson. 2008. Evidence for editing of human papillomavirus DNA by APOBEC3 in benign and precancerous lesions. Science 320, 5873 (April 2008), 230–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Robert J. Seifert. 2015. Profiting from Weekly Options. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Pim de Voogt (Ed.). 2016. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 236 (1st ed. 2016 ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chao Wu, Di Wu, Shulin Yan, and Yike Guo. 2014. Sensor Deployment in Bayesian Compressive Sensing Based Environmental Monitoring. In Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services: 10th International Conference, MOBIQUITOUS 2013, Tokyo, Japan, December 2-4, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Ivan Stojmenovic, Zixue Cheng and Song Guo (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 37–51.

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 Design Automation of Electronic Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Janet Fang. 2015. Killer Cholera Bacterium Stabs Others With Tiny Spear, Steals DNA. 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. 2012. K-12 Education: Selected States and School Districts Cited Numerous Federal Requirements As Burdensome, While Recognizing Some Benefits. 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]

Krystal Elaine Long. 2009. Voluntary exiles: Short-term Western expatriates in three Chinese cities. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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]

Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear. 2017. Top Court Puts Gerrymandering On Unclear Path. New York Times, A1.

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 [4–6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Des. Automat. Electron. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1084-4309
ISSN (online)	1557-7309
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