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)

Smaglik, P. Upping the Ante. Nature 2003, 424 (6950), 857.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Lau, H.; Maniscalco, B. Neuroscience. Should Confidence Be Trusted? Science 2010, 329 (5998), 1478–1479.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Labrosse, S.; Hernlund, J. W.; Coltice, N. A Crystallizing Dense Magma Ocean at the Base of the Earth’s Mantle. Nature 2007, 450 (7171), 866–869.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Högbom, M.; Stenmark, P.; Voevodskaya, N.; McClarty, G.; Gräslund, A.; Nordlund, P. The Radical Site in Chlamydial Ribonucleotide Reductase Defines a New R2 Subclass. Science 2004, 305 (5681), 245–248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Norwitz, E. R.; Belfort, M. A.; Saade, G. R.; Miller, H. Obstetric Clinical Algorithms: Management and Evidence; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

(1)

Ribes, R. Primary Care English; García-Gimeno, I., Jones, R., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

(1)

van Ooijen, P. M. A.; Kristanto, W.; de Jonge, G. J.; Kuehnel, C.; Hennemuth, A.; Boskamp, T.; Groen, J. M.; Broekema, A. Multi-Dimensional Computed Cardiac Visualization. In Coronary Radiology; Oudkerk, M., Reiser, M. F., Eds.; Baert, A. L., Knauth, M., Sartor, K., Series Eds.; Medical Radiology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp 297–338.

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

(1)

Andrew, E. Alzheimer’s Drug Permeates Blood-Brain Barrier. IFLScience.

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. Land Management Systems: Actions Needed in Completing the Automated Land and Mineral Record System Development; AIMD-98-107; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

(1)

Schutt, R. Topics in Model-Based Population Inference. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 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)

Kishkovsky, S. MOSCOW: THE BALLERINA SUES. New York Times. October 27, 2003, p E2.

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
Scope