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achemso — Support for submissions to

American Chemical Society journals∗
Joseph Wright†
Released 2008/08/22

Abstract
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The achemso bundle provides a L TEX class file and BibTEX style file in
accordance with the requirements of the American Chemical Society. The
files can be used for any documents, but have been carefully designed and
tested to be suitable for submission to acs journals.The bundle also includes the natmove package. This package is loaded
by achemso, and provides automatic moving of superscript citations after
punctuation.

Contents
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Introduction

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The class file
2.1 Class options . . . . .
2.2 Manuscript meta-data
2.3 Bibliography notes . .
2.4 Floats . . . . . . . . . .

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The package file

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Alteringthe behaviour of
natbib . . . . . . . . . . .
Package options . . . . .

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The BibTEX style files

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Change History

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Index

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References

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Introduction

Support for BibTEX bibliography following the requirements of the American
Chemical Society (acs), along with a package to make these easy to have been
available sinceversion one of achemso. The re-write from version 1 to version
2 made a number of improvements to the package, and also added a number
of new features. However, neither version one nor version two of the package
was targeted directly at use for submissions to acs journals. This new release of
achemso addresses this issue.
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The bundle consists of four parts. The first is a L TEX 2ε class,intended for
use in submissions. It is based on the standard article class, but makes various
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changes to facilitate ease of use. The second part is the L TEX package, which is
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file describes version v3.0a, last revised 2008/08/22.
joseph.wright@morningstar2.co.uk

† E-mail:

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loaded by the class. The package contains the parts of the bundle which might be
appropriate for usewith other document classes.1 Thirdly, two BibTEX style files
are included. These are used by both the class and the package, but can be used
directly if desired. Finally, an example document is included; this is intended to
act a potential template for submission, and illustrates the use of the class file.

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The class file

The class file has been designed for use in submitting journals tothe acs. It uses
all of the modifications described here (those in the package as well as those in
the class). The accompanying example manuscript can be used as a template for
the correct use of the class file. It is intended to act as a model for submission.

2.1 Class options
journal

manuscript

The class supports a limited number of options, which are specifically-targeted atsubmission. The class uses the keyval system for options, in the form key=value.
The most important option is journal. This is the name of the target journal for
the publication. The package is designed such that the choice of journal will set
up the correct bibliography style and so on. The journals currently recognised by
the package are summarised in Table Table 1. If an unknown journal isspecified,
the package will fall-back on the journal=jacsat option.
The second option is the manuscript option. This specifies the type of
paper in the manuscript. The values here are article, note, communication,
review, letter and perspective. The valid values will depend on the
value of journal. The manuscript option determines whether sections and
an abstract are valid. The value suppinfo is alsoavailable for supporting
information.
Other options are provided by the package, but when used with the class
these are silently ignored.

2.2 Manuscript meta-data
\title

\author
\affiliation
\altaffiliation
\email

When using the achemso class, the \title macro takes an optional argument.
This is intended for a short version of the title, for use in running headers. The
title in...