This is a working document. It was prepared by Bernie Rous, Ron Boisvert and Jon Doyle to document the file layout on acm.org for the Weblet containing Tables of Contents and full text of articles for ACM journals and magazines. It contains complete citation data, including, where available, abstracts, classifications, keywords, and links to full text.
All alphabetic characters are lower case.
No leading zeros in numeric fields. Null for article in printed journal. Starting page number for articles in journals with page numbers that cross article boundaries. For journals without issue divisions, articles without page numbers are numbered sequentially within a volume. For journals with issue divisions, articles without page numbers are numbered sequentially within an issue.