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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Eisenstein, M. Pesticides: Seeking Answers amid a Toxic Debate. Nature 2015, 521 (7552), S52-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Hertzfeld, H. R.; Pace, S. N. Space Law. International Cooperation on Human Lunar Heritage. Science 2013, 342 (6162), 1049–1050.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Scaffidi, P.; Misteli, T.; Bianchi, M. E. Release of Chromatin Protein HMGB1 by Necrotic Cells Triggers Inflammation. Nature 2002, 418 (6894), 191–195.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Xiao, B.; Jing, C.; Wilson, J. R.; Walker, P. A.; Vasisht, N.; Kelly, G.; Howell, S.; Taylor, I. A.; Blackburn, G. M.; Gamblin, S. J. Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of the Human Histone Methyltransferase SET7/9. Nature 2003, 421 (6923), 652–656.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Di Stefano, M. Distributed Data Management for Grid Computing; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

(1)

Handbook of Power Systems II; Rebennack, S., Pardalos, P. M., Pereira, M. V. F., Iliadis, N. A., Eds.; Energy Systems; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

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Utama, N. A.; Ishihara, K. N.; Zhang, Q.; Tezuka, T. 2050 ASEAN Electricity Demand: Case Study in Indonesia and Cambodia. In Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System”; Yao, T., Ed.; Green Energy and Technology; Springer Japan: Tokyo, 2011; pp 32–39.

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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Davis, J. Scientists Uncover The Earliest Known Animal To Have Walked Upright On All Fours. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earliest-known-animal-have-walked-upright-all-fours/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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. Telecommunications: Charges for Itemized Cellular Telephone Bills; RCED-93-214FS; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993.

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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Brient, R. Performance Considerations for Philippe Gaubert’s “Madrigal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

(1)

Poniewozik, J. When There’s Nothing Like a Good Cry. New York Times. September 19, 2016, p C1.

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