WWW reference format

What WWW expects

• Reference style: ACM Reference Format, through the ACM template the call requires.
• Class: \documentclass[sigconf, anonymous, review]{acmart} is the recommended setting in the call.
• Length, long papers: 8 pages as main paper, with additional pages for references and an optional appendix, up to 12 pages in total.
• Length, short papers: 4 pages, including references and optional appendix.
• Review: Double-blind. Refer to your own prior work in the third person.

Setting up the bibliography

The acmart package ships its own bibliography style, ACM-Reference-Format.bst. At the point where the reference list should appear:

\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}
\bibliography{refs}

ACM's reference page says to use a BibTeX (.bib) file with the ACM Reference Format .bst, and that ACM prefers full author names over initials. In-text citations are numbers in square brackets, such as [1] or [1, 2].

Three references in ACM Reference Format

1. Xiangnan He, Lizi Liao, Hanwang Zhang, Liqiang Nie, Xia Hu, and Tat-Seng Chua. 2017. Neural Collaborative Filtering. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, 173–182. https://doi.org/10.1145/3038912.3052569
2. Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, and Sue Moon. 2010. What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web. ACM, 591–600. https://doi.org/10.1145/1772690.1772751
3. Badrul Sarwar, George Karypis, Joseph Konstan, and John Riedl. 2001. Item-based collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on World Wide Web. ACM, 285–295. https://doi.org/10.1145/371920.372071

Produced by running ACM-Reference-Format.bst over a .bib file built from the Crossref record for each DOI. The style adds a period after a title that ends in a question mark, as in the second entry. Titles, authors, volumes and pages were checked against Crossref on 2026-10-01.

LaTeX template

The Web Conference uses the ACM Primary Article Template. Our ACM acmart template page has a compilable sigconf skeleton and explains the review and anonymous options.

Common mistakes

• Reading the limit as 8 pages plus unlimited references. The total, references and appendix included, stops at 12 pages.
• Using the long-paper rule for a short paper. Short papers are 4 pages with references inside the limit.
• Abbreviating first names. ACM's reference page states a preference for full names, and ACM-Reference-Format prints whatever the author field holds.
• Leaving out the doi field. The style prints the DOI as a link when the field is present and prints nothing when it is absent, with no warning.

Check your .bib file

• BibTeX Validator (free) checks a .bib file for syntax errors and missing required fields.
• Citation Generator (free) builds IEEE, APA, MLA and Chicago citations from entry fields, in your browser.
• Reference Converter (free) converts between BibTeX, RIS and EndNote. The same converter is below.