Style Error:[the-journal-of-physical-chemistry-letters]

mawhite3118

The JCPL Editor informed me of the following errors:

In Manuscript, for references with more than 10 authors, list first 10 authors
followed by "et al."

In Manuscript, remove urls from reference list

I was able to edit the american-chemical-society.csl by replacing the "author" macro with one from another CSL. This et al. format seems to be a new requirement for JPCL, only just appearing in some of the newly accepted papers online.

<macro name="author">
<names variable="author">
<name and="text" et-al-min="11" et-al-use-first="10" initialize-with=". "/>
<label form="short" prefix=", " text-case="capitalize-first"/>
<!--names variable="author" suffix="."-->
<!--name sort-separator=", " initialize-with=". " name-as-sort-order="all" delimiter="; " delimiter-precedes-last="always"/-->
<et-al font-style="italic"/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<names variable="translator"/>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>



Also I commented out the "DOI" text-variable.

<!--text variable="DOI" prefix=". https://doi.org/"/-->


This was an error. Only the "http://doi.org/" prefix should be removed:

<text variable="DOI" prefix=". "/>


dstillman

(When pasting code, you have to put <code></code> tags around it. I've added them here.)

bwiernik

That contradicts previous guidance from ACS, which (1) accepts manuscripts with any reference format and (2) very explicitly strongly prefers DOIs be included (they are the most important piece of information for typesetting and linking references for citation indexing).

https://axial.acs.org/2018/02/01/review-ready-submission/

mawhite3118

Yes, you are correct. What the editor wanted was for the "http://DOI.org/" prefix to be removed.

The corrected code is:
<text variable="DOI" prefix=". "/>