How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS). 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]

Frank Wurthner. 2006. Chemistry. Generating a photocurrent on the nanometer scale. Science 314, 5806 (December 2006), 1693–1694.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Binquan Luan and Mark O. Robbins. 2005. The breakdown of continuum models for mechanical contacts. Nature 435, 7044 (June 2005), 929–932.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Qi Fu, Howard Saltsburg, and Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos. 2003. Active nonmetallic Au and Pt species on ceria-based water-gas shift catalysts. Science 301, 5635 (August 2003), 935–938.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kodepelly Sanjeeva Rao, Jaganathan Senthilnathan, Yung-Fang Liu, and Masahiro Yoshimura. 2014. Role of peroxide ions in formation of graphene nanosheets by electrochemical exfoliation of graphite. Sci. Rep. 4, (February 2014), 4237.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Weiduo Hu. 2015. Fundamental Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Alexander Verl, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Oliver Brock, and Annika Raatz (Eds.). 2015. Soft Robotics: Transferring Theory to Application. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Guy K. Kloss and Andreas Schreiber. 2006. Provenance Implementation in a Scientific Simulation Environment. In Provenance and Annotation of Data: International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Luc Moreau and Ian Foster (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 37–45.

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 Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Janet Fang. 2016. Chickens Need Color Vision. 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. 2007. Information Technology: DHS Needs to Fully Define and Implement Policies and Procedures for Effectively Managing Investments. 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]

Adam Jason Spanier. 2008. The Relationship of Genes and Environment with Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Children with Asthma. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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 Vecsey. 2011. Welcoming Back N.B.A. With Open Yawns. New York Times, B16.

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, 5, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1936-7406
ISSN (online)	1936-7414
Scope	General Computer Science