ACM BibTeX Formatting

Here are examples of the most common reference types in ACM BibTeX format.

For a paginated article in a journal:

• @article{Abril:2007:PHD:1188913.1188915,
  author = {Abril, Patricia S. and Plant, Robert},
  title = {The Patent Holder's Dilemma: Buy, Sell, or Troll?},
  journal = {Commun. ACM},
  issue_date = {January 2007},
  volume = {50},
  number = {1},
  month = jan,
  year = {2007},
  issn = {0001-0782},
  pages = {36--44},
  numpages = {9},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1188913.1188915},
  doi = {10.1145/1188913.1188915},
  acmid = {1188915},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  }

For an enumerated article in a journal:

• @article{Cohen:2007:DEC:1219092.1219093,
  author = {Cohen, Sara and Nutt, Werner and Sagiv, Yehoshua},
  title = {Deciding Equivalences Among Conjunctive Aggregate Queries},
  journal = {J. ACM},
  issue_date = {April 2007},
  volume = {54},
  number = {2},
  month = apr,
  year = {2007},
  issn = {0004-5411},
  articleno = {5},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1219092.1219093},
  doi = {10.1145/1219092.1219093},
  acmid = {1219093},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  keywords = {Aggregation, Datalog, bag-set semantics, query equivalence},

For a monograph (whole book):

• @book{Kosiur:2001:UPN:381159,
  author = {Kosiur, Dave},
  title = {Understanding Policy-based Networking},
  year = {2001},
  isbn = {0-471-38804-1},
  publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.}, address = {New York, NY, USA},
  }

For a divisible book (anthology or compilation):

• @book{Oviatt:2017:HMI:3015783,
  editor = {Oviatt, Sharon and Schuller, Bj\"{o}rn and Cohen, Philip R. and Sonntag, Daniel and Potamianos, Gerasimos and Kr\"{u}ger, Antonio},
  title = {The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces: Foundations, User Modeling, and Common Modality Combinations},
  year = {2017},
  isbn = {978-1-97000-167-9},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan \&\#38; Claypool},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  }

For a multi-volume work (as a book):

• @book{Knuth:2009:ACP:1610541, author = {Knuth, Donald E.},
  title = {The Art of Computer Programming: Fascicles 0-4},
  year = {2009}, isbn = {0321637135}, edition = {1st},
  Volume = {4}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley Professional},
  }

For a (paginated proceedings) article in a conference proceedings (conference, symposium or workshop):

• @inproceedings{Andler:1979:PPE:567752.567774,
  author = {Andler, Sten},
  title = {Predicate Path Expressions},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages},
  series = {POPL '79},
  year = {1979},
  location = {San Antonio, Texas},
  pages = {226--236},
  numpages = {11},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/567752.567774},
  doi = {10.1145/567752.567774},
  acmid = {567774},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  }

For a Patent:

• @misc{JoeScientist001,
  author ={Joseph Scientist},
  year ={2009},
  title ={The fountain of youth},
  note ={Patent No. 12345, Filed July 1st., 2008, Issued Aug. 9th., 2009},
  url ={},
  month ={aug},
  lastaccessed = {},
  }

For an informally published work (such as some technical reports and dissertations):

• Technical Report:

  • @techreport{Harel:1978:LPA:889810,
    author = {Harel, D.},
    title = {LOGICS OF PROGRAMS: AXIOMATICS AND DESCRIPTIVE POWER}, year = {1978},
    source = {http://www.ncstrl.org:8900/ncstrl/servlet/search?formname=detail\&id=oai%3Ancstrlh%3Amitai%3AMIT-LCS%2F%2FMIT%2FLCS%2FTR-200},
    publisher = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
    address = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
    }

• Doctoral dissertation:

  • @phdthesis{Clarkson:1985:ACP:911891,
    author = {Clarkson, Kenneth Lee}, advisor = {Yao, Andrew C.},
    title = {Algorithms for Closest-point Problems (Computational Geometry)},
    year = {1985},
    note = {AAT 8506171},
    publisher = {Stanford University},
    address = {Stanford, CA, USA},
    }

• Master's Thesis:

  • @mastersthesis{Bruwer:1986:DMC:904765,
    author = {Bruwer, Frederick Johannes},
    title = {Digital Modem with Combined Convolutional Coding and Modulation for Speech Band Data Communication. (Afrikaans Text)},
    year = {1986},
    note = {AAI0662099},
    }

For an 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.

• @online{Thornburg01,
  author ={Harry Thornburg},
  year = {2001},
  title ={Introduction to Bayesian Statistics},
  url ={http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/bayes/bayes.html},
  month =mar,
  lastaccessed ={March 2, 2005},
  }

• @misc{ acm:###,
  author = {ACM},
  title = {Association for Computing Machinery: Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession},
  url = {http://www.acm.org/}
  }

• @misc{ wiki:###,
  author = {Wikipedia},
  title = {{W}ikipedia{,} The Free Encyclopedia},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://www.wikipedia.org/}
  }

For a Video (two examples):

• @inproceedings{Novak:2003:SM:1006091.1006096,
  note = {Director-Novak, Dave},
  title = {Solder Man},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Video Review on Animation Theater Program: Part 1 - Volume 145},
  series = {SVR '03},
  year = {2003},
  pages = {4--},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1006091.1006096},
  doi = {10.1145/1006091.1006096},
  acmid = {1006096},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  }

• @misc{Obama08,
  author= {Barack Obama},
  year= {2008},
  title = {A more perfect union},
  url= {http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6528042696351994555},
  month = {mar},
  lastaccessed = {March 21, 2008},
  note = {},
  }

For Preprints (arXiv):

• @preprint{AnzarootPBM14,
  Author = {Sam Anzaroot and Alexandre Passos and David Belanger and Andrew McCallum},
  Title = {Learning Soft Linear Constraints with Application to Citation Field Extraction},
  Year = {2014},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
  Eprint = {1403.1349},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.1403.1349},
  }

For Software and Datasets:

• @ArtifactSoftware{R,
  title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
  author = {{R Core Team}},
  organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://www.R-project.org/}, }
• @ArtifactDataset{UMassCitations,
  author = {Sam Anzaroot and Andrew McCallum},
  title = {{UMass} Citation Field Extraction Dataset},
  year = 2013,
  url = {http://www.iesl.cs.umass.edu/data/data-umasscitationfield},
  lastaccessed = {May 27, 2019} }

For Supplemental Materials Attached to Proceedings or Journal Artilces:

• Inproceedings{Novak03,
  Author = {Dave Novak},
  Title = {Solder man},
  Year = {2003},
  publisher = "ACM Press",
  address = "New York, NY",
  pages = "4",
  month = "March 21, 2008",
  doi = "10.9999/woot07-S422",
  howpublished = "Video",
  }

For periodicals (when a complete issue of a journal is cited):

• Inproceedings{@periodical{JCohen96, key = "Cohen",
  editor = "Jacques Cohen",
  title = "Special issue: Digital Libraries",
  journal = "Communications of the {ACM}",
  volume = "39",
  number = "11",
  month = nov,
  year = "1996",
  }

For presentations:

• @Presentation{Reiser2014,
  author = {Brian J. Reiser},
  year = 2014,
  title = {Designing coherent storylines aligned with NGSS for the K-12 classroom},
  venue = {National Science Education Leadership Association Meeting, Boston, MA, USA}, url = {https://www.academia.edu/6884962/}
  }

For articles under review:

• @underreview{Baggett2025,
  author = {R. Baggett and M. Simecek and C. Chambellan and K. Tsui and M. Fraune},
  year = 2025,
  title = {Fluidity in the Phased Framework of Technology Acceptance: Case Study to Gain a Holistic Understanding of (Older Adult) Participant Advancement Through Acceptance Phases with Mobile Telepresence Robots},
  journal = {Robotics Aut. Systems}
  }