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What an Association for Computing Machinery reference looks like

Association for Computing Machinery is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.

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Journal article

[1] Leslie S. Babonis and Mark Q. Martindale. 2022. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119, 19 (May 2022), e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119

Book

[1] Thomas S. Kuhn. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.

Web page

[1] IPCC. 2021. Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. Retrieved July 15, 2026 from https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

Journal article with 26 authors

[1] Charles R. Harris, K. Jarrod Millman, Stéfan J. van der Walt, Ralf Gommers, Pauli Virtanen, David Cournapeau, Eric Wieser, Julian Taylor, Sebastian Berg, Nathaniel J. Smith, Robert Kern, Matti Picus, Stephan Hoyer, Marten H. van Kerkwijk, Matthew Brett, Allan Haldane, Jaime Fernández del Río, Mark Wiebe, Pearu Peterson, Pierre Gérard-Marchant, Kevin Sheppard, Tyler Reddy, Warren Weckesser, Hameer Abbasi, Christoph Gohlke, and Travis E. Oliphant. 2020. Array programming with NumPy. Nature 585, 7825 (September 2020), 357–362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2

Association for Computing Machinery at a glance

Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.

Used mainly in engineering.
In the text, the first source is cited as [1].
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
First names are written out in full.
DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...).
Web pages include the date you accessed them.
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
The style file was last updated in January 2024.

The guide this style follows: acm.org

How Association for Computing Machinery compares with IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023

Where Association for Computing Machinery differs:

For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
First names are written out in full.
DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...).
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.

The same journal article in IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023

[1] L. S. Babonis and M. Q. Martindale, “A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians,” PNAS, vol. 119, no. 19, p. e2113701119, May 2022, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

Open IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023