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

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Holland, G. J. Oceans. Predicting El Nino’s Impacts. Science 2009, 325 (5936), 47.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Fialko, Y.; Pearse, J. Sombrero Uplift above the Altiplano-Puna Magma Body: Evidence of a Ballooning Mid-Crustal Diapir. Science 2012, 338 (6104), 250–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Kim, M.; Carman, C. V.; Springer, T. A. Bidirectional Transmembrane Signaling by Cytoplasmic Domain Separation in Integrins. Science 2003, 301 (5640), 1720–1725.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Turner, S.; Tonarini, S.; Bindeman, I.; Leeman, W. P.; Schaefer, B. F. Boron and Oxygen Isotope Evidence for Recycling of Subducted Components over the Past 2.5 Gyr. Nature 2007, 447 (7145), 702–705.

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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Zepernick, H.-J.; Finger, A. Pseudo Random Signal Processing; John Wiley & Sons Ltd,.: West Sussex, England, 2005.

An edited book

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Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Mycoses; Hospenthal, D. R., Rinaldi, M. G., Eds.; Infectious Disease; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

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Joardder, M. U. H.; Karim, A.; Kumar, C.; Brown, R. J. Effect of Porosity on Drying Kinetics and Food Properties. In Porosity: Establishing the Relationship between Drying Parameters and Dried Food Quality; Karim, A., Kumar, C., Brown, R. J., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp 47–64.

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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Hale, T. Why Do All Airplane Windows Have A Tiny Hole In Them?. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-little-hole-airplane-windows/ (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. Briefing on Air Force’s Response on Fee-For-Service Aerial Refueling; GAO-10-124R; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009.

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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Mendoza-Williams, J. Road to Success: The Experiences of Academically Successful Graduation-Bound African American Males. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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)

Saslow, L. Two Students Honored for Scientific Projects. New York Times. December 11, 2005, p 14LI8.

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