How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS). 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]

William R. Taylor. 2005. Stirring the primordial soup. Nature 434, 7034 (April 2005), 705.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Richard Stone and Barbara Jasny. 2013. Communication in science pressures and predators. Scientific discourse: buckling at the seams. Introduction. Science 342, 6154 (October 2013), 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dominik Boos, Mona Yekezare, and John F. X. Diffley. 2013. Identification of a heteromeric complex that promotes DNA replication origin firing in human cells. Science 340, 6135 (May 2013), 981–984.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Ryosuke Hayama, Shuji Yokoi, Shojiro Tamaki, Masahiro Yano, and Ko Shimamoto. 2003. Adaptation of photoperiodic control pathways produces short-day flowering in rice. Nature 422, 6933 (April 2003), 719–722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

The Chartered Institute of Building. 2008. Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada, Hans-Jörg Barth, Friedhelm Krupp, Benno Böer, and Thabit Zahran Al Abdessalaam (Eds.). 2008. Protecting the Gulf’s Marine Ecosystems from Pollution. Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sharma Chakravarthy and Qingchun Jiang. 2009. LITERATURE REVIEW. In Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective: Modeling, Scheduling, Load Shedding, and Complex Event Processing, Sharma Chakravarthy (ed.). Springer US, Boston, MA, 33–48.

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 Modeling and Computer Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

Tom Hale. 2016. How Could You Survive This Ancient Suicide Pact Puzzle? IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-could-you-survive-this-ancient-suicide-pact-puzzle/

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. Aviation Safety: Changes Needed in FAA’s Service Difficulty Reporting 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]

Riaz Ahmed Liyakath. 2012. Reconfigurable Antenna and RF Circuits Using Multi-Layer Stretchable Conductors. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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 ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. 2016. Chandeliers. New York Times, RE13.

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 [4, 6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul.
ISSN (print)	1049-3301
ISSN (online)	1558-1195
Scope