How to format your references using the Accounts of Chemical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accounts of Chemical Research. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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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Collins, F. Has the Revolution Arrived? Nature 2010, 464 (7289), 674–675.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Margueron, R.; Reinberg, D. The Polycomb Complex PRC2 and Its Mark in Life. Nature 2011, 469 (7330), 343–349.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Zhang, Q.; He, K.; Huo, H. Policy: Cleaning China’s Air. Nature 2012, 484 (7393), 161–162.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Barone, C.; Romeo, F.; Pagano, S.; Adamo, M.; Nappi, C.; Sarnelli, E.; Kurth, F.; Iida, K. Probing Transport Mechanisms of BaFe₂As₂ Superconducting Films and Grain Boundary Junctions by Noise Spectroscopy. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6163.

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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Rhee, M. Y. Wireless Mobile Internet Security; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

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Materials with Internal Structure: Multiscale and Multifield Modeling and Simulation; Trovalusci, P., Ed.; Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Swan, M. Designing Tasks That Challenge Values, Beliefs and Practices: A Model for the Professional Development of Practicing Teachers. In Constructing Knowledge for Teaching Secondary Mathematics: Tasks to enhance prospective and practicing teacher learning; Zaslavsky, O., Sullivan, P., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2011; pp 57–71.

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 Accounts of Chemical Research.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Domestic Cat Or Lost Lynx? On The Trail Of The ‘Paris Tiger.’ 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. Amtrak: Acela’s Continued Problems Underscore the Importance of Meeting Broader Challenges in Managing Large-Scale Projects; GAO-05-698T; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005.

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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Monterosa, V. M. Digital Citizenship District-Wide: Examining the Organizational Evolution of an Initiative. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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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Poniewozik, J. The Rise of Surreality TV. New York Times. March 28, 2017, p C1.

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	Accounts of Chemical Research
Abbreviation	Acc. Chem. Res.
ISSN (print)	0001-4842
ISSN (online)	1520-4898
Scope	General Chemistry General Medicine