How to format your references using the ACS Earth and Space Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 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

(1)

Weidemüller, M. Quantum Physics: Spooky Action Gets Collective. Nature 2013, 498 (7455), 438–439.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Kleppner, D.; Jackiw, R. One Hundred Years of Quantum Physics. Science 2000, 289 (5481), 893–898.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Rouse, G. W.; Goffredi, S. K.; Vrijenhoek, R. C. Osedax: Bone-Eating Marine Worms with Dwarf Males. Science 2004, 305 (5684), 668–671.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Jess, D. B.; Mathioudakis, M.; Erdélyi, R.; Crockett, P. J.; Keenan, F. P.; Christian, D. J. Alfvén Waves in the Lower Solar Atmosphere. Science 2009, 323 (5921), 1582–1585.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Heads, G. Living Mindfully; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

(1)

Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem: Third International Conference, GRMSE 2015, Wuhan, China, October 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2016.; Bian, F., Xie, Y., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016; Vol. 569.

A chapter in an edited book

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Sergeyev, Y. D.; Strongin, R. G.; Lera, D. A Brief Conclusion. In Introduction to Global Optimization Exploiting Space-Filling Curves; Strongin, R. G., Lera, D., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Optimization; Springer: New York, NY, 2013; pp 117–118.

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 Earth and Space Chemistry.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Farmers Of The Future Will Utilize Drones, Robots And GPS. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/farmers-future-will-utilize-drones-robots-and-gps/ (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. Telecommunications: Enhanced Data Collection Could Help FCC Better Monitor Competition in the Wireless Industry; GAO-10-779; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010.

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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Shroff, N. Efficient Sensing, Summarization and Classification of Videos. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2012.

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)

Yaccino, S.; Cooper, M. Cries of Betrayal As Detroit Plans To Cut Pensions. New York Times. July 22, 2013, p A1.

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 Earth and Space Chemistry
Abbreviation	ACS Earth Space Chem.
ISSN (online)	2472-3452
Scope