There are three formats for ACM journals/transactions:

1. Small Standard Format
2. Large Format Single Column
3. Large Format Double Column

Identify the journal for which you are writing and download the appropriate files.

1.  The Small Standard Format is used for the following journals and transactions:

CIE, CSUR, JACM, JDIQ, JEA, JETC, TAAS, TACCESS, TACO, TALG, TALIP, TECS,TIIS, TISSEC, TIST, TKDD, TMIS, TOCE, TOCHI, TOCL, TOCS, TOCT, TODAES, TODS, TOIS, TOIT, TOMACS, TOMS, TOPLAS, TOS, TOSEM, TOSN, TRETS, TSLP, TWEB.

Please download:

http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/acm-small-v1-2.zip

2.  The Large Format Single Column is used for the following journal and transactions:

JOCCH, TAP, TOMCCAP

Please download:

http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/acm-large-v1-2.zip

3.  The Large File Double Column is used for:

TOG

Please download:

http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/acm-tog-v1-1.zip

Please note that all instructions on how to use these files are included in the zipped file. For your convenience, sample articles in PDF format are also included.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Should you need technical help working with your LaTeX class files, please direct your query to:

acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com

All email queries will be responded to within 24 hours.

COMPUTING CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

An important aspect of preparing your paper for publication by ACM is to provide the proper subject classification for your paper by choosing the appropriate categories from the ACM Computing Classification System (CCS). As the subject expert, you are best qualified to insert these indexing terms. The CCS taxonomy is a four-level tree with three alpha-numerically coded levels and an un-coded level of subject descriptors (usually appearing at the fourth, most granular level). It is important that you choose only one Primary Subject Classification. You may choose other secondary classifications as well. Follow the usage guidelines found here:

http://www.acm.org/class/how_to_use.html

Accurate categorization provides the reader with a quick content reference and facilitates the search for related literature. Several important Digital Library functions rely on the CCS indexing, including the identification of areas of expertise on Author Profile pages.

ACM IN-TEXT CITATION STYLE

The in-text citation style is as follows: For parenthetical citations we enclose the last name of the first author and year of publication, thus: [Burando 2007]; when there are two authors, both last names and the year of publication are included [Burando and Lee 2007]; when there are more than two authors, we cite the last name of the first author followed by an "et al." [Burando et al. 2007]. Sequential parenthetical citations are enclosed in square brackets and separated by semi-colons, thus [Burando 2007; Burando and Lee 2007]. 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. [2007]…"

When an author has more than one article published in the same year, the citation becomes [Burando 2007a] and [Burando 2007b].

SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT REFERENCE FORMATS

Much time is spent by the production staff in putting the references of a manuscript in order during the copyediting process. In some papers, up to 50% of the time could be spent doing just this. In addition, all these have to be entered into the file by our supplier. Reference linking and citation counts are facilitated by use of these standard reference formats. Please adhere strictly to the reference formats that we use for ACM publications, because a manuscript in which references do not follow the standard format can cost both time and money.

By using your BibTeX (.bib) file with the appropriate .bst file (small or large) your references should require minimum editing.

Here are examples of the most common reference types formatted for ACM journal.

For an article in a journal:

ABDELBAR, A.M., AND HEDETNIEMI, S.M. 1998. Approximating MAPs for belief networks in NP-hard and other theorems. Artificial Intelligence 102, 21-38.

For a book:

GINSBERG, M. 1987. Readings in Nonmonotonic Reasoning. Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, CA.

For an article in a book or collection:

GREINER, R. 1999. Explanation-based learning. In The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, R. WILSON AND F. KEIL, Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 301-303.

For an article in a conference proceedings:

MAREK, W., AND TRUSZCZYNSKI, M. 1989. Relating autoepistemic and default logics. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Toronto, Canada, May 1989, H. BRACHMAN AND R. REITER, Eds. Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 276-288.

For a dissertation:

BRANDON, J. 2007. Similarity of temporal query logs. Doctoral dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles.

For a technical report:

HORAN, B., GARDNER, M., and SCOTT, J. 2009 Mirtle: a Mixed Reality Teaching & Learning Environment. Technical Report. UMI Order Number: SERIES13103., Sun Microsystems, Inc.

For an article in a Newspaper:

WHITE, E. 1999. Chatting a singer up the pop charts. Wall Street Journal.

For a Web Page:

GOOGLE, 2008. Google adsense. http://www.google.com/adsense