How to format your references using the ACS Combinatorial Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACS Combinatorial Science. 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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Hansson, G. K. Medicine. LIGHT Hits the Liver. Science 2007, 316 (5822), 206–207.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Egnatchik, R. A.; DeBerardinis, R. J. Metabolism: Growth in the Fat Lane. Nature 2015, 520 (7546), 165–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Gillis, A. J.; Schuller, A. P.; Skordalakes, E. Structure of the Tribolium Castaneum Telomerase Catalytic Subunit TERT. Nature 2008, 455 (7213), 633–637.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Sidor, C. A.; O’Keefe, F. R.; Damiani, R.; Steyer, J. S.; Smith, R. M. H.; Larsson, H. C. E.; Sereno, P. C.; Ide, O.; Maga, A. Permian Tetrapods from the Sahara Show Climate-Controlled Endemism in Pangaea. Nature 2005, 434 (7035), 886–889.

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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Rooney, T. IP Address Management; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

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The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization; Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A., Nejdl, W., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; Vol. 4321.

A chapter in an edited book

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Aron, I. D.; Leventhal, D. H.; Sellmann, M. A Totally Unimodular Description of the Consistent Value Polytope for Binary Constraint Programming. In Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems: Third International Conference, CPAIOR 2006, Cork, Ireland, May 31 - June 2, 2006. Proceedings; Beck, J. C., Smith, B. M., Eds.; Hutchison, D., Kanade, T., Kittler, J., Kleinberg, J. M., Mattern, F., Mitchell, J. C., Naor, M., Nierstrasz, O., Pandu Rangan, C., Steffen, B., Sudan, M., Terzopoulos, D., Tygar, D., Vardi, M. Y., Weikum, G., Series Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; pp 16–28.

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 Combinatorial Science.

Blog post

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Taub, B. New Research Reveals How Cocaine Affects Your DNA. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-research-reveals-how-cocaine-affects-your-dna/ (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. Information Technology: Additional OMB and Agency Actions Needed to Ensure Portfolio Savings Are Realized and Effectively Tracked; GAO-15-296; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015.

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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Ademiluyi, C. A. Felony Disenfranchisement and How It Contributes to the Black Electorate. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

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Whiteside, K. Same High Ideals, All New Challenges. New York Times. March 25, 2015, p B10.

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 Combinatorial Science
Abbreviation	ACS Comb. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2156-8952
ISSN (online)	2156-8944
Scope	General Chemistry General Medicine