How to format your references using the ACS Macro Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACS Macro Letters. 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)

Baulcombe, D. DNA Events. An RNA Microcosm. Science 2002, 297 (5589), 2002–2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Mahadevan, L.; Rica, S. Self-Organized Origami. Science 2005, 307 (5716), 1740.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Umari, P.; Mosconi, E.; De Angelis, F. Relativistic GW Calculations on CH3NH3PbI3 and CH3NH3SnI3 Perovskites for Solar Cell Applications. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4467.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Hu, J.; Wang, D.; Li, J.; Jing, G.; Ning, K.; Xu, J. Genome-Wide Identification of Transcription Factors and Transcription-Factor Binding Sites in Oleaginous Microalgae Nannochloropsis. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

McLean, D. Understanding Aerodynamics; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

(1)

Oncologic Emergency Medicine: Principles and Practice; Todd, K. H., Thomas, C. R., Jr., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Giannetti, R.; Velucchi, M. The Demography of Manufacturing Firms (1911–1971). In Evolution of Italian Enterprises in the 20th Century; Giannetti, R., Vasta, M., Eds.; Müller, W. A., Bihn, M., Series Eds.; Contributions to Economics; Physica-Verlag HD: Heidelberg, 2006; pp 63–86.

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 Macro Letters.

Blog post

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Fang, J. Ant Fight! Dopamine Turns Workers Into Queens. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ant-fight-dopamine-turns-workers-queens/ (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. Spending Grant Funds More Efficiently Could Save Millions; PSAD-80-58; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1980.

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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Deutsch, D. Increased Mental Health Services for the Homeless. 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

(1)

Vecsey, G. Bradley Logs Miles Before World Cup. New York Times. February 25, 2010, p B18.

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 Macro Letters
Abbreviation	ACS Macro Lett.
ISSN (online)	2161-1653
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