As part of ACS Publications’ continued commitment to improving the publishing experience for both authors and reviewers, we have introduced “Review-Ready Submission.” This initiative is intended to save authors time and effort when preparing manuscripts for submission, as well as help reviewers focus on the science contained within the submitted manuscript.
Starting February 1, we ask that you follow the following standard formatting practices when submitting to any ACS journal:
- Submissions must be complete with clearly identified standard sections used to report original research, free of annotations or highlights, and include all numbered and labeled components.
- Figures, charts, tables, schemes, and equations should be embedded in the text. You may supply separate graphics at revision.
- When required by a journal’s structure or length limitations, manuscript templates should be used.
- You may provide references in any style, but they must be complete including titles.
- Supporting Information must be submitted as a separate file(s).
- Author names and affiliations on the manuscript must match those found on ACS Paragon Plus.
To streamline reference styling, we will be updating the publicly available reference managers with a standard style, which will automatically include titles. Journal-specific reference styles will be applied by the journal production team after the journal accepts a paper for publication.
While each journal will continue to have journal-specific scientific requirements, these standard formatting guidelines will ensure that manuscripts are ready for review upon receipt by the editorial office. Also, these new standards will help streamline the authoring process for transferring manuscripts to the most appropriate ACS journal.
Want to learn more about the ins and outs of publishing with ACS journals? Visit the Author and Reviewer Resource Center to view journal templates, submission instructions, and more.
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RITU Mahajan
12:06 am1. guidelines for authors for submission of manuscript.
2. manuscript template
acs.axial
Response to RITU Mahajan 10:55 amYou can learn about those subjects (and more!) on our Authors Portal: https://pubs.acs.org/publish/
yangmin
Response to RITU Mahajan 2:12 pmWe are submitting our manuscript to ACS photonics
nilesh mutkule
12:51 pmGuidelines of table for Optimization of the Reaction Condition
HO VAN CHUONG
4:46 am1. guidelines for authors for submission of manuscript.
2. manuscript template
Nomsa
8:16 am1. guidelines for authors for submission of manuscript.
2. manuscript template
acs.axial
Response to Nomsa 9:51 amHi there — Author guidelines and templates vary by journal, but they’re available. Visit https://pubs.acs.org/, click on the journal you’d like to submit to, then look for the header labeled “authors” on that journal’s homepage. Clicking on that link will take you to a page with all the resources you need.
Ming· Zhang·
10:10 pmDear colleagues，
My ACS ID is Ming_Zhang, Email: mzhanguk@gmail.com, and ORCID of 0000-0002-9735-2568.
We are in the stage of submitting a manuscript (“Soft mode and phase transition of SiO2-moganite at high temperatures: an in-situ vibrational spectroscopic study”) to Journal of Physical Chemistry C using your ACS website. Everything seems fine with the files, except that in the final stage, the pre-submitting proof generated by your ACS system added all figures in the begin of the proof. There seems nothing I can do to correct this. Can you help?
Ming Zhang
mzhanguk@gmail.com or Ming_Zhang@caep.cn
lagha samira
4:28 pmOur work focuses on the chemical composition of a jam associated with biological, sensory, and nutritional properties
Jerome
Response to lagha samira 2:25 amDoes the 3000 words limitation of the Nano Letters journal include the method section?
acs.axial
Response to Jerome 4:22 pmThe 3000 word limit includes the methods section. It does not include the figures, tables and references.
Guofeng Wang
10:12 am1. guidelines for authors for submission of manuscript.
leee
6:40 amThe journal Nano Letters suggests the Letter contains no more than 3000 words. Does this include the references and figure caption?
acs.axial
Response to leee 10:48 amThe 3000 word limit does not include the references and figure caption.
Eslam Salama
6:13 amWe are planning to submit a manuscript to the Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS). What is the limited number of contains’ words?
Thanks in advance.
acs.axial
Response to Eslam Salama 8:50 amYou may view the submission guidelines here: https://publish.acs.org/publish/author_guidelines?coden=jacsat
GURPREET
6:56 amdoes the word count limit for nanoletters as per the new guidelines include the figure captions and introduction?
acs.axial
Response to GURPREET 10:46 amThe word limit includes the abstract. It does not include the figures, tables and references.
Xiaopeng Zhai
9:26 pmThe erosion and plugging of nanopores in low-permeability coal reservoirs are important factors that affect the permeability damage rate. The mechanism of the damage on the permeability of nanopores in coal reservoirs remains unclear. In this study, the coal samples from the Anze coalbed methane block of North China Oilfield are used as the research object. Experiments are conducted on nanopore permeability, micropore (scanning electron microscope) characteristics of polluted coal samples and particle size distribution of the polluted working fluid. The mechanism of permeability damage on the coal reservoir with nanopores and nanoparticles under the action of distilled water, KCl and DPC water-soluble polymer is also studied. All of the coal samples show traces of being scoured by the fluid, and obvious substances appear to have passed through the end face of the coal samples. Some nanoparticles accumulate and plug the reservoir pores. After the foreign working fluid invades a coal sample, the sample changes from being hydrophobic to being water absorbent within a certain period. The particles expand and block the pores. The instability caused by the expansion of coal clay mineral particles promotes the dispersion and shedding of particles, and the migration of particles is blocked under the shear stress of the working fluid. In addition, the viscosity and pressure difference of the working fluid are important factors that affect particle migration. The higher the viscosity of the working fluid is, the more nanoparticles the fluid carries and the easier it is to block the pores of the coal reservoir. As the pressure difference increases, the permeability decreases, increases and then decreases again linearly. Permeability can be reduced by up to two orders of magnitude. Evidently, an important task in protecting nanopore permeability is to avoid causing damage on the coal reservoir. The findings show that selection of a low-concentration, water-soluble polymer fluid and reasonable reduction of the production pressure difference can effectively reduce the damage on reservoir permeability. Such findings provide theoretical support for the selection of drilling fluids for the protection of coal reservoirs with nanopores.
Vimal
1:11 amI wish many more journals would take a leaf out of your organisation and produce similar process streamlining. Great initiative!
Nepolraj Amaladoss
10:37 amtemplate
Yuelong Li
9:54 am1. guidelines for authors for submission of manuscript.
2. manuscript template
Dusan
10:50 amI need ACS Central Science template, but cannot find it anywhere on the website.
acs.axial
Response to Dusan 3:40 pmACS Central Science does not require the use of a template. As long as you follow the streamlined standards described in the blog post above, any format is fine.