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},
}
@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):
@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},
}
@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},
}
@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 = {},
}
@article{hep-ph/9609357,
Author = {Martin Beneke and Gerhard Buchalla and Isard Dunietz},
Title = {Mixing-induced CP Asymmetries in Inclusive $B$ Decays},
Year = {1996},
Eprint = {arXiv:hep-ph/9609357},
doi = {10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01648-6},
}