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Upcoming Changes for Inorganic Chemistry: Adding Titles to References and Adjusting Communication Length Requirements
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n our continuing efforts to improve the quality of the journal and render journal articles more useful to you, our readers and reviewers, we announce a change in the format of references to include article titles along with the appropriate citation information. Reviewers, editors, and readers find titles in references to be useful for identifying the bibliographic material more clearly and gaining ready insight into the contents of the reference. Two potential disadvantages are (a) the increased length of the published work, which is an issue for Communications, which are currently limited to three pages, and (b) extra effort required by authors to include the additional information. We view the latter concern to be mitigated by the essentially universal use of bibliographic software and the common uploading of complete citation information (including article titles) from journal Web sites, SciFinder, and other online resources. In order to address issue (a), the change in policy for references will be accompanied by a change from the current restriction of Communications to “the equivalent of three journal pages” to “the equivalent of three journal pages, not including references.” These new length guidelines, as well as the requirement for all references to include titles, will go into effect for all manuscripts submitted after August 1, 2016. Because of the rolling nature of submissions and variations in the review process, we anticipate that there will be several journal issues with some articles that have titles in references and some that do not but that within a relatively short period all articles will conform to the new standard. The new reference formats are as follows: Journal Publications: Doe, J. S.; Smith, J.; Roe, P. Compounds with Strange Bonding Motifs. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1968, 90, 8234−8241. Books: Smith, A. B. Textbook of Chemistry; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1972. Edited Books: Doe, J. S.; Smith, J.; Roe, P. In Modern Inorganic Chemistry Concepts; Jones, R. P., Adams, T. S., Eds.; Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; Chapter 6, pp 67−89. Theses: Doe, J. S. Molecules of Interest to Inorganic Chemists. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2014. Papers Published Online or In Press: Doe, J. S.; Smith, J.; Roe, P. Method for Synthesizing Large Cobalt Clusters. Inorg. Chem. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.xxxx (where xxxx refers to the unique paper identifier). We believe that these changes will be useful and more in line with practices across the ACS Publications portfolio. Thank you, authors, for your patience as we make this transition.
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
William B. Tolman, Editor-in-Chief
© 2016 American Chemical Society
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Published: July 5, 2016 6351
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01380 Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 6351−6351
