How to format your references using the ACS Applied Energy Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACS Applied Energy Materials. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

(1)

Diamond, J. Archaeology: Sources of Chaco Wood. Nature 2016, 529 (7584), 31–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Akiyama, T.; Gibson, M. C. Decapentaplegic and Growth Control in the Developing Drosophila Wing. Nature 2015, 527 (7578), 375–378.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Huang, S.; Bai, M.; Wang, L. General and Facile Surface Functionalization of Hydrophobic Nanocrystals with Poly(Amino Acid) for Cell Luminescence Imaging. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2023.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Li, J.; Kinoshita, T.; Pandey, S.; Ng, C. K.-Y.; Gygi, S. P.; Shimazaki, K.-I.; Assmann, S. M. Modulation of an RNA-Binding Protein by Abscisic-Acid-Activated Protein Kinase. Nature 2002, 418 (6899), 793–797.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Perez, A. Voice Over LTE; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

(1)

Gan, Z. Visual Sensing and Its Applications: Integration of Laser Sensors to Industrial Robots; Tang, Q., Ed.; Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

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Cazella, S. C.; Reategui, E. B.; Behar, P. Recommendation of Learning Objects Applying Collaborative Filtering and Competencies. In Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society: IFIP TC 3 International Conference, KCKS 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings; Reynolds, N., Turcsányi-Szabó, M., Eds.; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp 35–43.

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 ACS Applied Energy Materials.

Blog post

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Luntz, S. Astronomers Discover Our Sun’s “Sibling.” IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-discover-our-suns-sibling/ (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. Feasibility of Treating Contractors’ Independent Research and Development Costs as a Budget Line Item; B-164912; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1971.

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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Williams, A. Kindergarten through Third Grade Reading Tutors in Northeast Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2010.

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)

Wogan, J. In Store; No Red, No Blue. New York Times. January 10, 2017, p ST3.

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	ACS Applied Energy Materials
Abbreviation	ACS Appl. Nano Mater.
ISSN (online)	2574-0970
Scope