How to format your references using the ACS Chemical Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 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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Sanchez, P. A. A Smarter Way to Combat Hunger. Nature 2009, 458 (7235), 148.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Morrison, S. J.; Kimble, J. Asymmetric and Symmetric Stem-Cell Divisions in Development and Cancer. Nature 2006, 441 (7097), 1068–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Yoon, S.-J.; Yi, S. K.; Lee, Y.-W. Explaining the Color Distributions of Globular Cluster Systems in Elliptical Galaxies. Science 2006, 311 (5764), 1129–1132.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Genzel, R.; Schödel, R.; Ott, T.; Eckart, A.; Alexander, T.; Lacombe, F.; Rouan, D.; Aschenbach, B. Near-Infrared Flares from Accreting Gas around the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Centre. Nature 2003, 425 (6961), 934–937.

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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Smith, J.; Roberts, R. Vital Signs for Nurses; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

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Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure; Daglis, I. A., Ed.; NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005; Vol. 176.

A chapter in an edited book

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Kuźniak, E. The Ascorbate–Gluathione Cycle and Related Redox Signals in Plant–Pathogen Interactions. In Ascorbate-Glutathione Pathway and Stress Tolerance in Plants; Anjum, N. A., Chan, M.-T., Umar, S., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010; pp 115–136.

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 Chemical Neuroscience.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Calbuco Volcano – Evacuations And Air-Traffic Disruption Follow Eruption. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/calbuco-volcano-evacuations-and-air-traffic-disruption-follow-eruption/ (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. Examination Into Certain Contract Costs for the E-2C Aircraft Program; B-163058; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1973.

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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Bristow, L. W. There Is an Old Woman: The Final Stage of Individuation. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2009.

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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Wagner, J. Mets Move to Retain Cespedes and Walker. New York Times. November 8, 2016, p B8.

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 Chemical Neuroscience
Abbreviation	ACS Chem. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1948-7193
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Physiology General Medicine Cognitive Neuroscience