How to format your references using the ACS Chemical Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 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

(1)

Duflo, E. Rigorous Evaluation of Human Behavior. Science 2012, 336 (6087), 1398.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Belenky, P.; Collins, J. J. Microbiology. Antioxidant Strategies to Tolerate Antibiotics. Science 2011, 334 (6058), 915–916.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Fay, J. C.; Wyckoff, G. J.; Wu, C.-I. Testing the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution with Genomic Data from Drosophila. Nature 2002, 415 (6875), 1024–1026.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

(1)

Eggert, U. S.; Ruiz, N.; Falcone, B. V.; Branstrom, A. A.; Goldman, R. C.; Silhavy, T. J.; Kahne, D. Genetic Basis for Activity Differences between Vancomycin and Glycolipid Derivatives of Vancomycin. Science 2001, 294 (5541), 361–364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Eisner, H. Managing Complex Systems; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

(1)

Advanced Computer Architecture: 11th Conference, ACA 2016, Weihai, China, August 22-23, 2016, Proceedings; Wu, J., Li, L., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Singapore, 2016; Vol. 626.

A chapter in an edited book

(1)

Kemper, C.; Oxley, I. The Benefits of Version Control. In Foundation Version Control for Web Developers; Oxley, I., Ed.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2012; pp 75–90.

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 Chemical Neuroscience.

Blog post

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Davis, J. Surprisingly, Bees Top The List Of Most Deadly Venomous Creatures In Australia. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/surprisingly-bees-top-the-list-of-most-deadly-venomous-creatures-in-australia/ (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

(1)

Government Accountability Office. Follow-Up on Contracting Issues at Denver International Airport; RCED-96-95R; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

(1)

Pei, X. Acid Modification of Psyllium. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2008.

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)

Williams, J. 3 Important Men and 1 Stressful Season. New York Times. August 6, 2017, p C2.

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 Chemical Neuroscience
Abbreviation	ACS Chem. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1948-7193
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Physiology General Medicine Cognitive Neuroscience