Upgrade StorageStyle Error (?): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hi All, my apologies if this is my misunderstanding, but I thought ACM required in text citations to be numerical, not including the author's name and year.
I downloaded the .CSL file at https://www.zotero.org/styles/association-for-computing-machinery and the in-text citations using the Word Mac plugin look like: [Zhang et al. 2016] not [1], etc.
From: https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/reference-formatting
The in-text citation style is as follows: 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]..."
Or, is the name versus number issue a setting in Zotero I am not aware of? It does look like the IEEE citation style uses the correct bracket-based in-text citations.
I downloaded the .CSL file at https://www.zotero.org/styles/association-for-computing-machinery and the in-text citations using the Word Mac plugin look like: [Zhang et al. 2016] not [1], etc.
From: https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/reference-formatting
The in-text citation style is as follows: 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]..."
Or, is the name versus number issue a setting in Zotero I am not aware of? It does look like the IEEE citation style uses the correct bracket-based in-text citations.
https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:acm-sigchi-proceedings&dependent=0
The style has been created, but...
There is one major ACM style and all the various ACM journals are just dependents of this style. So if we change the Master ACM style it'll change all the others.
I don't have access to these journals, so can I ask you to check about 10 random ACM journals and have a look if all of them use the numeric in-text citation style like [1]?
http://dl.acm.org/pubs.cfm?CFID=923794374&CFTOKEN=74512761
Issues with the style could probably be reported over on Github.
[I'm writing for the PLoP conference, and their template looks like this new style].
The CSL is working for me. Some details that I've encountered so far:
(1) The presentation isn't giving full content, e.g. the reference of ...
David Ing. 2015. Service Systems Thinking: From Environmental Structure to a New Generative Pattern Language. (July 2015).
.. doesn't give the conference or URL from the RDF cached at https://pastebin.com/pAAn1DzA .
(2) The DOI should be just digits without an http:, in the resulting ...
P. Shrivastava and I.I. Mitroff. 1984. Enhancing Organizational Research Utilization: The Role of Decision Makers’ Assumptions. Academy of Management Review 9, 1 (1984), 18–26. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.1984.4277749, Oxford University Press.
... from the RDF cached at https://pastebin.com/6yFVfEn3 .
I'll keep you posted if I find other issues. Thanks.
http://www.acm.org/publications/authors/reference-formatting
E.g.: [1] Sarah Cohen, Werner Nutt, and Yehoshua Sagic. 2007. Deciding equivalances among conjunctive aggregate queries. J. ACM 54, 2, Article 5 (April 2007), 50 pages. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1219092.1219093 (note that the dx.doi.org is the old way of doing and it is recommended to use the https://doi.org/ one now.
re (1):
In the guidelines it only shows DOIs for paper-conference. have you been told it should give the URL instead if there is no DOI?
(Thanks for pasting that RDF! Super helpful when doing these things :) )
I just made some initial changes (right click and save): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/damnation333/styles/f5161fab1a3151cfa326e93d47a78f652cb37a86/association-for-computing-machinery.csl
re (2):
Okay, I guess the style is working as designed.
re (1):
The problem is that not all conference papers have DOIs. So, if there's no DOI and no URL, there's no web link, and the reader will have to revert to a search engine to find the document.
I'm using the template provided at http://www.hillside.net/plop/2017/index.php?nav=submissions#process . Within the sample document, there are some example references ....
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David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel. 1962. Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat’s visual cortex. J. Physiol. 160, 1 (1962), 106–154. http://jp.physoc.org
David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel. 1968. Receptive fields and functional architecture of monkey striate cortex. (1968). http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/content/abstract/195/1/215 http://www.hubel/papers/uconn.html.
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I guess if the reference is really old (e.g. 1960s), a link to a URL is okay when a DOI isn't possible. That may not be perfect, but it's practical.
Can you check this one? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/damnation333/styles/f5161fab1a3151cfa326e93d47a78f652cb37a86/association-for-computing-machinery.csl
I had actually made some changes to this style over 3 months ago but it never gotten reviewed. Let's get this done and dusted today ;)
That was due to the fact that we couldn't check if all the ACM journals we have in the repository all follow this very same style. I don't have access to this publisher. If you could check a handful of journals (~10) and confirm then we can move this forward. Thanks
I downloaded the style you revised on July 3, and was surprised at the result. Looking at the source code, I see ...
... when I was expecting an update of ...
... so the style from author-date to numeric has completely changed!
That being said, I now see many entries with "Retrieved from ..." with the date and URL. For me, that's a big improvement. (Now, if it was in author-date style ....).
Looking at https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/reference-formatting , I noticed a reference to a BST file, and I didn't know what that was. If it helps, I see there's work at https://github.com/borisveytsman/acmart/blob/master/ACM-Reference-Format.bst that was updated in June, so you might not be the only one interested in the issue.
I've already submitted a workshop proposal for PLoP using the template provided at http://www.hillside.net/plop/2017/index.php?nav=submissions#process . This is author-date.
Check on the ACM page: https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions Everything there are numeric styles.
Only thing I can think of is that PLoP are following an old version