In papers referring to the TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation's (TRECVID's) goals, guidelines, general results, etc. please cite tbe following publication:

BibTex

@inproceedings{1178722,
 author = {Alan F. Smeaton and Paul Over and Wessel Kraaij},
 title = {Evaluation campaigns and TRECVid},
 booktitle = {{MIR} '06: {P}roceedings of the 8th {ACM} {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {M}ultimedia {I}nformation {R}etrieval},
 year = {2006},
 isbn = {1-59593-495-2},
 pages = {321--330},
 location = {Santa Barbara, California, USA},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1178677.1178722},
 publisher = {ACM Press},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }

ACM Ref

Smeaton, A. F., Over, P., and Kraaij, W. 2006. Evaluation campaigns
and TRECVid. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on
Multimedia Information Retrieval (Santa Barbara, California, USA,
October 26 - 27, 2006). MIR '06. ACM Press, New York, NY,
321-330. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1178677.1178722