How to format your references using the Accounts of Chemical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accounts of Chemical Research. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

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Franklin, A. D. DEVICE TECHNOLOGY. Nanomaterials in Transistors: From High-Performance to Thin-Film Applications. Science 2015, 349 (6249), aab2750.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Cruz, G.; Lowe, G. Neural Coding of Binary Mixtures in a Structurally Related Odorant Pair. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Halberda, J.; Mazzocco, M. M. M.; Feigenson, L. Individual Differences in Non-Verbal Number Acuity Correlate with Maths Achievement. Nature 2008, 455 (7213), 665–668.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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De Martini, F.; Buzek, V.; Sciarrino, F.; Sias, C. Experimental Realization of the Quantum Universal NOT Gate. Nature 2002, 419 (6909), 815–818.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

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Eggert, H.; Kauschke, W. Structural Bearings; Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG: Berlin, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

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Justice and Economic Violence in Transition; Sharp, D. N., Ed.; Springer Series in Transitional Justice; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; Vol. 5.

A chapter in an edited book

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Chevrot, A.; Drapé, J.-L.; Godefroy, D.; Feydy, A. Percutaneous Infiltration of the Craniovertebral Region. In Imaging in Percutaneous Musculoskeletal Interventions; Gangi, A., Guth, S., Guermazi, A., Eds.; Baert, A. L., Knauth, M., Sartor, K., Series Eds.; Medical Radiology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp 83–91.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Accounts of Chemical Research.

Blog post

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Andrew, D. American Astronauts Drink Their Pee - But Russians Refuse. IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

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Government Accountability Office. Airline Mergers: Issues Raised by the Proposed Merger of American Airlines and US Airways; GAO-13-403T; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Adams, A. W. Shepherd Leadership of Church of God Pastors and How This Relates to Ministerial Effectiveness. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2013.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

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Billard, M. Embracing Change, Quietly. New York Times. September 5, 2013, p E11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Accounts of Chemical Research
Abbreviation	Acc. Chem. Res.
ISSN (print)	0001-4842
ISSN (online)	1520-4898
Scope	General Chemistry General Medicine