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/
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
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.