ACS short form citation

agnash · December 7, 2018

Hi,

I've been reading the forums; I have been looking for the appropriate citation style, specifically the following ACS Style. I understand what is in the ACS style book. However, this is what almost everyone uses (example below):

Zeng, G.; Sakaki, S.; Fujita, K.; Sano, H.; Yamaguchi, R. ACS Catal. 2014, 4, 1010

The journal title should be italicized, the year bolded, and the issue italicized. Only the first page, not the page range should be shown. Only the issue, not the volume should be displayed.

Again, this is standard in most ACS journals and this is how everyone uses it. I'm not well versed in HTML or CS, my entire library is in Zotero, and I would appreciate the help.

I want to emphasize again that this citation style is standard, what is expected in my publications and my thesis. So this is what I am looking for.

Thank you,
AGN

enozkan · December 7, 2018

So, just add the style. They are available. There are currently 9194 styles in the repository, so there is a good chance any given journal is already there.

Here are the instructions:
https://www.zotero.org/support/styles#installing_additional_styles

I see many (possible all) ACS journals in the Zotero Style Repository (https://www.zotero.org/styles), including ACS Catalysis.

If you are looking for a style that does not exist in the repository yet, you can request it: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

bwiernik · December 7, 2018

ACS has recently adopted a policy of accepting any citation style for submissions so long as it contains the full title of the item, and the “ACS style” in Zotero is the format they specifically requested Zotero use.

See http://pubs.acs.org/paragonplus/submission/jacsat/jacsat_authguide.pdf