JAFC citation

colliersharp
Why was JAFC citation style changed from the correct citation style to the wrong one? Please change it back.

JAFC Reference Guidelines:
http://pubs.acs.org/page/jafcau/submission/reference-guidelines.html

Thanks
  • RintzeRintze
    The change was made 10 months ago based on another user's report: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22140/style-updated-journal-of-agricultural-and-food-chemistry

    I checked the journal's sample issue (1st issue of 2013), and it uses superscript instead of parentheses, so maybe the instructions are just wrong?
  • adamsmith
    (and when in doubt we go with a journal's style as published, not with the instructions, which are very frequently wrong)
  • DWL-SDCA
    @adamsmith Until about a year ago (when they switched to ScholarOne for manuscript submission) all BMJ Group journals published articles used superscript but they required submissions to be Vancouver with reference numbers in parens (or maybe it was square brackets). That format was needed by their typesetting system. From the manuscripts I have reviewed since the switch it seems that they have become more flexible.
  • adamsmith
    but IIRC correctly they were very explicit on that in their instructions - didn't it say something like "do not use superscript..."? In that case I believe we did follow that, but that's not the case for ACS, which does actually have two different formats for numbering followed in different journals.

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