Computer science (survey articles)
References for ACM CSUR
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What ACM CSUR expects
- Manuscript format: LaTeX or Word
- Template: acmart, manuscript option — \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart}
- Citation style: Numbered citations by default (ACM-Reference-Format bibliography style) — the same ACM-wide convention CCS uses.
Like other acmart-based ACM venues, CSUR's authoring guidelines call for BibTeX to prepare references.
Setting up the bibliography
In your main .tex file, where the reference list should appear:
\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}
\bibliography{refs}ACM-Reference-Format.bst ships inside the acmart package itself. Build with pdflatex, then bibtex, then pdflatex twice more, so both the in-text citations and the reference list resolve.
Things that catch people out
- ACM-Reference-Format renders a DOI whenever the .bib entry carries a doi field, so a missing doi silently drops from the output rather than erroring.
- acmart defaults to numbered citations; \citestyle{acmauthoryear} switches the whole document to author-year.
Frequently asked
What LaTeX template does ACM CSUR use?
acmart, manuscript option — \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart}
What citation style does ACM CSUR use?
Numbered citations by default (ACM-Reference-Format bibliography style) — the same ACM-wide convention CCS uses.
What bibliography style should I use for ACM CSUR?
ACM-Reference-Format. ACM-Reference-Format.bst ships inside the acmart package itself.
Where this comes from
Sourced from https://dl.acm.org/journal/csur/author-guidelines. Confirmed directly from ACM's author-guidelines page for the journal plus ACM's shared TAPS authoring documentation for the BibTeX/citation-style rule.
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