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

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Gershon, D. Vaccine Centres Unite Specialists in the Battle against Infectious Diseases. Nature 2000, 408 (6813), 753–754.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Moerchen, M.; Coontz, R. General Relativity. Einstein’s Vision. Introduction. Science 2015, 347 (6226), 1082–1083.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Maisel, S. B.; Höfler, M.; Müller, S. A Canonical Stability-Elasticity Relationship Verified for One Million Face-Centred-Cubic Structures. Nature 2012, 491 (7426), 740–743.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Plesch, M.; Dahlsten, O.; Goold, J.; Vedral, V. Maxwell’s Daemon: Information versus Particle Statistics. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6995.

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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Dickson, E. F. G. Personal Protective Equipment for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazards; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

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Gruijter, J. J. de. Sampling for Natural Resource Monitoring; Bierkens, M. F. P., Brus, D. J., Knotters, M., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

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Ishibuchi, H.; Nojima, Y. Multiobjective Genetic Fuzzy Systems. In Computational Intelligence: Collaboration, Fusion and Emergence; Mumford, C. L., Jain, L. C., Eds.; Kacprzyk, J., Jain, L. C., Series Eds.; Intelligent Systems Reference Library; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp 131–173.

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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Carpineti, A. Incredible New Map Of Mercury Revealed. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-new-map-mercury/ (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. Untangling the Stafford Student Loan Program; 147034; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992.

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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Armstrong-Romero, K. A. Cultural Influences and the Impact of Workplace Bullying. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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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Gant, K. Quotation of the Day. New York Times. February 27, 2011, p A3.

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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