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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Smaglik, P. A Question of Gender. Nature 2003, 426 (6963), 209.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Knight, S. W.; Bass, B. L. A Role for the RNase III Enzyme DCR-1 in RNA Interference and Germ Line Development in Caenorhabditis Elegans. Science 2001, 293 (5538), 2269–2271.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Taylor, G. K.; Nudds, R. L.; Thomas, A. L. R. Flying and Swimming Animals Cruise at a Strouhal Number Tuned for High Power Efficiency. Nature 2003, 425 (6959), 707–711.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Schliehe, C.; Juarez, B. H.; Pelletier, M.; Jander, S.; Greshnykh, D.; Nagel, M.; Meyer, A.; Foerster, S.; Kornowski, A.; Klinke, C.; Weller, H. Ultrathin PbS Sheets by Two-Dimensional Oriented Attachment. Science 2010, 329 (5991), 550–553.

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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Zwecher, M. J. Retirement Portfolios; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

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Phosphorous Heterocycles I; Bansal, R. K., Ed.; Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 20.

A chapter in an edited book

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Cazzola, W.; Chiba, S.; Saake, G. Guest Editors’ Introduction: Aspects and Software Evolution. In Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development IV; Rashid, A., Aksit, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp 114–116.

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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Davis, J. A British Man May Have Been Cured Of HIV. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-british-man-may-have-been-cured-of-hiv/ (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. Data Processing: SBA Needs To Strengthen Management of Its Computer Systems; IMTEC-86-28; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1986.

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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Wicks, C. F. The Self-Concept of Students in Remediation in a Rural Community College in Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2017.

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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Kishkovsky, S. Submarine’s Namesake City Hurts As Minute After Minute Ticks Away. New York Times. August 17, 2000, p A8.

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