Submitting to ACS journals
What we hold as ACS’s house rules, and where each one was read. A journal’s own guide for authors always comes first: a rule here is used only where that guide is silent.
Journals
active in Scopus
House rules on record
all read on ACS’s own pages
Last read
each rule carries its own date
Read on ACS’s own author pages
Verified: ACS states these for its journals. Only rules like these can count as a blocker in a check, and a journal’s own guide still comes first.
Figures in the manuscript
May be embedded in the text
Verified
Read on ACS Publications: How to Choose File Designations, 16 September 2026.
“graphics may either be embedded in the file or uploaded separately”
What the journal decides, not ACS
These vary between ACS journals, so we do not hold a house value for them. Your journal’s own guide for authors is where to look.
Reference style · Citation format · Reference format at submission · Abstract · Abstract length · Keywords, fewest · Keywords, most · Separate title page · Line numbering · Figure formats · Figure resolution, floor · Line art resolution · Greyscale resolution · Colour resolution · Cover letter · Declarations
Journals in this family
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research · Environmental Science and Technology Letters · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · ACS Pharmacology and Translational Science · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry · Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation · ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering · ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering · Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data · Journal of the American Chemical Society · Organic Process Research and Development · ACS Agricultural Science and Technology · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
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