Our template uses acl_natbib.bst to format the bibliography, indicated in acl.sty:
Bib Entries
Our uses custom.bib, is indicated at the bottom of acl_latex.tex, for adding references to be included in the paper:
Any preprint must be checked whether or not it has been published to a peer-reviewed venue. If it has, use the reference from the peer-reviewed venue instead of the preprint source such as arXiv.
Keep the following conventions to add entries in the bib file:
- For key, make sure there is no duplicate.
- For title, surround the text with curly braces; otherwise, the title will be lowercased in print:
- For booktitle or journal, do not use acronyms but the full venue names. For instance, the following is good:
whereas the following is bad:
Also, do not append the acronym in parentheses at the end of the venue name. For instance, remove (ACL) from the following::
Use the series field rather to indicate the acronym.
- For series, use the format acronym'year (e.g., ACL'20), where acronym is the acronym of the venue and year is the last two digits of the published year.
- For pages, put two dashes between the first and the last pages (e.g., 1--10).
- For url, add the link to the original source of the paper (e.g., ).
Citations
Use \citet when the reference is used in context:
Use \cite when the reference is used outside of the context:
Use \citealt when the reference is used inside of parentheses: