How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC). 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]

Rachel Bernstein. 2015. The health of those who study health. Science 348, 6242 (June 2015), 1506.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Praveen Anand and Nagasuma Chandra. 2014. Characterizing the pocketome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and application in rationalizing polypharmacological target selection. Sci. Rep. 4, (September 2014), 6356.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Anuj K. Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir. 2012. Some consequences of having too little. Science 338, 6107 (November 2012), 682–685.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Esak Lee, Seung Jae Lee, Jacob E. Koskimaki, Zheyi Han, Niranjan B. Pandey, and Aleksander S. Popel. 2014. Inhibition of breast cancer growth and metastasis by a biomimetic peptide. Sci. Rep. 4, (November 2014), 7139.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Liang Hao and Jonathan Lawrence. 2006. Laser Surface Treatment of Bio-Implant Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Song Gao (Ed.). 2015. Molecular Nanomagnets and Related Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sahar Amiri, Mohammad Ali Semsarzadeh, and Sanam Amiri. 2014. Novel Thermoreversible Block Copolymers: Silicone Macroinitiator in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. In Silicon Containing Copolymers, Mohammad Ali Semsarzadeh and Sanam Amiri (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 39–53.

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 Information and System Security.

Blog post

[1]

Janet Fang. 2016. Running Can Boost Your Brain Power. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/physical-activity-might-boost-brain-power/

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. 1995. Comments on Deletion of FTS 2000 Provision from 1996 Appropriation Act. 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]

Beverly Magda. 2009. Increasing efficacy of emergency departments through systems analysis of enterprise architecture: Mitigating the impact of technological change. 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]

John Schwartz. 2016. Feeling Cornered, Coal Industry Borrows From Big Tobacco’s Playbook, Activists Say. New York Times, A10.

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, 4, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. Secur.
ISSN (print)	1094-9224
ISSN (online)	1557-7406
Scope