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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McArdle, J. Animal Welfare Act’s Changes Deserve Praise, Not Panic. Science 2000, 290 (5495), 1299c–1300c.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Jordan, M. J. T.; Kable, S. H. Chemistry. Roaming Reaction Pathways along Excited States. Science 2012, 335 (6072), 1054–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Hedrick, T. L.; Cheng, B.; Deng, X. Wingbeat Time and the Scaling of Passive Rotational Damping in Flapping Flight. Science 2009, 324 (5924), 252–255.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Sañudo-Wilhelmy, S. A.; Kustka, A. B.; Gobler, C. J.; Hutchins, D. A.; Yang, M.; Lwiza, K.; Burns, J.; Capone, D. G.; Raven, J. A.; Carpenter, E. J. Phosphorus Limitation of Nitrogen Fixation by Trichodesmium in the Central Atlantic Ocean. Nature 2001, 411 (6833), 66–69.

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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Seifert, R. J. Profiting from Weekly Options; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

(1)

Briscoe, J. Nanostructured Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters; Dunn, S., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Materials; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014.

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 Combinatorial Science.

Blog post

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Andrew, D. Here’s What To Eat To Recover From An Injury. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-what-to-eat-to-recover-from-an-injury/ (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. NSF’s Award of Two Research Vessels Met Requirements; PAD-82-14; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982.

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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O’Neal, L. What’s in Your Toolbox?: Examining Tool Choices at Two Middle and Late Woodland-Period Sites on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2016.

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)

Crow, K. The Student, the Sleuth and the Mysterious Pillow. New York Times. September 17, 2000, p 141.

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