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

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Strasser, P. CHEMISTRY. Catalysts by Platonic Design. Science 2015, 349 (6246), 379–380.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Quinn, T. C.; Overbaugh, J. HIV/AIDS in Women: An Expanding Epidemic. Science 2005, 308 (5728), 1582–1583.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Ma, J.-B.; Ye, K.; Patel, D. J. Structural Basis for Overhang-Specific Small Interfering RNA Recognition by the PAZ Domain. Nature 2004, 429 (6989), 318–322.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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O’Neal, C. J.; Jobling, M. G.; Holmes, R. K.; Hol, W. G. J. Structural Basis for the Activation of Cholera Toxin by Human ARF6-GTP. Science 2005, 309 (5737), 1093–1096.

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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Pande, A.; Wolshon, B. Traffic Engineering Handbook; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

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Trusted Systems: First International Conference, INTRUST 2009, Beijing, China, December 17-19, 2009. Revised Selected Papers; Chen, L., Yung, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 6163.

A chapter in an edited book

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Elmitwalli, T. A.; Al-Sarawey, A.; El-Sherbiny, M. F. Egyptian Effluent Standards for Treated Sewage: Evaluation and Recommendations. In Efficient Management of Wastewater: Its Treatment and Reuse in Water-Scarce Countries; Baz, I. A., Otterpohl, R., Wendland, C., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; pp 41–51.

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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Hale, T. Fly Above Mount Etna With This Stunning Drone Footage. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fly-above-mount-etna-with-this-stunning-drone-footage/ (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. Stock Market Automation: Exchanges Have Increased Systems’ Capacities Since the 1987 Market Crash; IMTEC-91-37; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991.

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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Morissette, T. M. Elder Friendliness and Social Participation of Older Adults Living within Age-Segregated Retirement Communities. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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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Kelly, C. In a Hospital Stay, No Time to Rest. New York Times. August 7, 2007, p F5.

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