ACM Citation Style

ACM CITATION STYLE

In-text Citation

For parenthetical citations we enclose the number of the reference, thus: [1].
Sequential parenthetical citations are enclosed in square brackets and separated by commas, thus [1, 2].
When a citation is part of a sentence, the name of the author is NOT enclosed in brackets, but the year is: "So we see that Burando et al. [1]..."
ACM's preference is for full names and not initials or abbreviations.

Reference Format

Article (For a paginated article in a journal) [1] Patricia S. Abril and Robert Plant. 2007. The patent holder's dilemma: Buy, sell, or troll? Commun. ACM 50, 1 (Jan. 2007), 36-44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1188913.1188915
Book (For a monograph (whole book)) [1] David Kosiur. 2001. Understanding Policy-Based Networking (2nd. ed.). Wiley, New York, NY.
Conference Paper (For a (paginated proceedings) article in a conference proceedings (conference, symposium or workshop)) [1] Sten Andler. 1979. Predicate path expressions. In Proceedings of the 6th. ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL '79), January 29 - 31, 1979, San Antonio, Texas. ACM Inc., New York, NY, 226-236. https://doi.org/10.1145/567752.567774
**Online document/WWW resource *(***Website year can be found at the bottom of the website page or by viewing page properties/source to see when the page was last modified.) [1] Harry Thornburg. 2001. Introduction to Bayesian Statistics. (March 2001). Retrieved March 2, 2005 from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/bayes/bayes.html [2] ACM. Association for Computing Machinery: Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession. Retrieved from http://www.acm.org/. [3] Wikipedia. 2017. WikipediA: the Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.wikipedia.org/.
arXiv [1] Martha Constantinou. 2016. New physics searches from nucleon matrix elements in lattice QCD. arXiv:1701.00133. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00133
Doctoral Dissertation [1] Kenneth L. Clarkson. 1985. Algorithms for Closest-Point Problems (Computational Geometry). Ph.D. Dissertation. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. UMI Order Number: AAT 8506171.

References

Craig Rodkin. 2020. Citation Style and Reference Formats. Retrieved December 8, 2020 from https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/reference-formatting