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)

Charlesworth, B. Evolution. Variation Catches a Ride. Science 2010, 330 (6002), 326–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Peacock, E.; Garshelis, D. L. Comment on “On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects” IV. Science 2006, 313 (5783), 45; author reply 45.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Good, M. C.; Zalatan, J. G.; Lim, W. A. Scaffold Proteins: Hubs for Controlling the Flow of Cellular Information. Science 2011, 332 (6030), 680–686.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Alvarez, S. E.; Harikumar, K. B.; Hait, N. C.; Allegood, J.; Strub, G. M.; Kim, E. Y.; Maceyka, M.; Jiang, H.; Luo, C.; Kordula, T.; Milstien, S.; Spiegel, S. Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Is a Missing Cofactor for the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase TRAF2. Nature 2010, 465 (7301), 1084–1088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Ronen, T. The Positive Power of Imagery; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

(1)

Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites; Egido, R. B., Egeland, C. P., Eds.; Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

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Kim, H.-J.; Seo, K. K.; Lee, H.-K.; Kim, J. Clinical Anatomy of the Lower Face for Filler Injection. In Clinical Anatomy of the Face for Filler and Botulinum Toxin Injection; Seo, K. K., Lee, H.-K., Kim, J., Eds.; Springer: Singapore, 2016; pp 153–174.

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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Fang, J. In West Africa, Snakebites Are As Deadly As Other Neglected Tropical Diseases. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/west-africa-snakebites-are-deadly-other-neglected-tropical-diseases/ (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. Space Shuttle: Costs for Hubble Servicing Mission and Implementation of Safety Recommendations Not Yet Definitive; GAO-05-34; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2004.

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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Gopalappa, C. Three Essays on Analytical Models to Improve Early Detection of Cancer. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 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)

Vecsey, G. The Dangerous Cocoon Of King Football. New York Times. November 8, 2011, p B16.

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