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}, }

For a Patent:

@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):

Technical Report

@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}, }

Doctoral dissertation

@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}, }

Master's Thesis

@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 = {}, }

For arXiv:

@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}, }