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+++ title = "bibliography" +++ The BibTeX code you get from the ACM Digital Library or IEEE Xplore or whatever is usually terrible. You need to fix it up manually:

  • Remove all the useless fields like publisher and keywords. For inproceedings (conference) entries, keep only author, title, booktitle, and year.
  • Edit the conference name (booktitle) to be less rambly. Remove stuff like Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on... and use something succinct like Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). Include popular abbreviations in parentheses to help readers skim. When submitting to a venue with unjust page limit rules that include references, consider using the abbreviation by itself to save space (and as a form of protest).
  • Check for capitalization in the title and surround it with curly braces. For example, use {PRIMES} is in {P} to make sure BibTeX doesn’t render it as Primes is in p.

If you find something on arXiv, always look for a real publication first before resorting to an arXiv citation.