acmbibtex
How can I remove the tags before each bibliographic entry in the list (and also remove the paragraph indentation if possible? Also, is the version without the [Author Year] a valid ACM bibliography style at all?
(See image attached please)
My code for the bibliography is this:
\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format-Journals}
\bibliography{library}
Thanks.
You may want to change to BiblaTex, it is the future since it's much more customizable than BibTex.
You can do what you asked for using this*:
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
{\enumerate{}
{\setlength{\leftmargin}{\bibhang}%
\setlength{\itemindent}{-\leftmargin}%
\setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
\setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}}
{\endenumerate}
{\item}
*I took it from this question. When you put this in the preamble, you will get what you need:
If you decide to move to Biblatex, you may want to use Biber as the backend. Finally, these two questions will help you a lot to change. What to do to switch to biblatex? and How to use biber.
I believe you need to load the ACM-Reference-Format-Journals style to get citations and references in the form described in the excerpts you've posted. I.e., issue the command
\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format-Journals}
instead of \bibliographystyle{acm}. If you don't already have this style file, go to the ACM LaTeX Style Guide webpage and download and unpack any one of the three zip files for authors (v2-acmsmall.zip, v2-acmlarge.zip, v2-acmtog.zip), and then copy the .bst file to the directory that contains your TeX file(s).
To get authoryear-style citations, you should also load the natbib package.
Addendum Feb. 2017: The ACM LaTeX style guide webpage appear to have migrated to https://www.acm.org/publications/acm-latex-style-guide-3jan2017.
Addendum Apr. 2021: The ACM LaTeX style guide webpage has migrated yet again. It is currently available at ACM Primary Article Templates AND Publication Workflow. Note that there are separate templates, depending on whether your computer uses MacOS or Windows. (I have no idea what users of Linux, etc, might want to do.) The ACM's template files are now also available in an Overleaf depository.
Best Answer
Assuming your copy of the style file
ACM-Reference-Format-Journals.bstis more or less the same as the one I was able to obtain from this GitHub site, you can get rid of the bracketd citation labels by loading thenatbibpackage (in the preamble):To get rid of the handing indentation, use the instruction
You don't mention the document class you use or if you load any packages that perform citation management chores, so this is as far as I can go in giving advice.