In both cases, the maximum number of authors permitted before introducing ‘et
al.’ is governed by the
maxauthors
option. This option recognises the sentinel
value 0, which indicates that no shortening should occur at all.
Redefining the formatting of the numbers used in the bibliography usually
biblabel (env.)
requires modifying internal L
A
T
E
X macros. The
biblabel
option makes these
changes more accessible: valid values are
plain
(use the number only),
brackets
(surround the number in brackets) and
period
or
fullstop
(follow the number
by a full stop/period).
Most acs journals use the same bibliography style, with the only variation
biochem (env.)
biochemistry (env.)
being the inclusion of article titles. However, a small number of journals use
a rather different style; the journal Biochemistry is probably the most promi-
nent. The biochemistry or biochem option uses the style of Biochemistry for the
bibliography, rather than the normal acs style.
5.2 Bibliography notes
achemso provides the
\bibnote
macro. This is intended for addition of notes
\bibnote
\bibnotemark
\bibnotetext
to the bibliography (references). The macro accepts a single argument, which is
transferred to the bibliography by BibT
E
X. In analogy to
\footnote
, the macros
\bibnotemark
and
\bibnotetext
are available for dividing up the marker for a
note from the text.
Some text \bib note{This note text wil l be in the bibliography}.
Some text.
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The functionality for bibnotes in achemso is based on that in the notes2bib
package. The notes2bib package can be loaded with the achemso package, and
no clash will occur. With the class file, notes2bib will be ignored if requested, to
prevent issues on submission to the acs.
6 The BibT
E
X style files
achemso is supplied with two style files,
achemso.bst
and
biochem.bst
. The di-
rect use of these without the achemso package file is not recommended, but is pos-
sible. The style files can be loaded in the usual way, with a
\bibliographystyle
command. The natbib package must be loaded by the L
A
T
E
X file concerned, if the
achemso package is not in use.
The style files are designed to use the mciteplus package if it is available, but
to work even if is not. When mciteplus is present, it is possible to automatically
produce references of the form
(5) (a) Arduengo, A. J., III; Dias, H. V. R.; Harlow, R. L.; Kline, M. J. Am.
Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 5530–5534; (b) Appelhans, L. N.; Zuccaccia, D.;
Kovacevic, A.; Chianese, A. R.; Miecznikowski, J. R.; Macchioni, A.;
Clot, E.; Eisenstein, O.; Crabtree, R. H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127,
16299–16311; (c) Arduengo, A. J., III; Gamper, S. F.; Calabrese, J. C.;
Davidson, F. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994, 116, 4391–4394.
as demonstrated in the example document. When mciteplus is not present, this
functionality is not available but the style files will work normally.
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