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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 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	Download the output style file
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]

Susan L. Brantley. 2008. Geology. Understanding soil time. Science 321, 5895 (September 2008), 1454–1455.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Purvis and A. Hector. 2000. Getting the measure of biodiversity. Nature 405, 6783 (May 2000), 212–219.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Scaillet, M. Pichavant, and R. Cioni. 2008. Upward migration of Vesuvius magma chamber over the past 20,000 years. Nature 455, 7210 (September 2008), 216–219.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Chami N. K. Patabendige, Abul K. Azad, Paul A. Connor, Aurélie Rolle, and John T. S. Irvine. 2013. Remarkable transition from rocksalt/perovskite layered structure to fluorite/rocksalt layered structure in rapidly cooled Ln₂CuO₄. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 1504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

David H. Bennett. 2013. Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

[1]

Brenda C. McClain and Santhanam Suresh (Eds.). 2011. Handbook of Pediatric Chronic Pain: Current Science and Integrative Practice. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fuzhong Wang, Ying Gao, and Fukai Zhang. 2016. Research on Trajectory Tracking Strategy of Roadheader Cutting Head Using ILC. In Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference: Volume 2, Yingmin Jia, Junping Du, Hongbo Li and Weicun Zhang (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 35–44.

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 Graphics.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2013. New Solar Cell Breaks World Record For Efficiency. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-solar-cell-breaks-world-record-efficiency/

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. 1991. FAA Budget: Key Issues in Facilities and Equipment and Operations Accounts Need Resolution. 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]

Sofya Berezin. 2009. Catechols as membrane anion transporters. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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 Tappin, Leslie Van Der Leer, and Ryan Mckay. 2017. Your Opinion Is Set in Stone. New York Times, SR8.

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 Graphics
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Graph.
ISSN (print)	0730-0301
ISSN (online)	1557-7368
Scope