CH 201: Research Methods in Chemistry: Edit Output Style

Output styles are templates that tell EndNote how to format citations and references based on the style guide rules.

EndNote comes preloaded with many styles and additional styles may be downloaded from the repository.

Definitive guide for chemical manuscripts.

ACS Style Guide  (3rd edition)
American Chemical Society
QD8.5 .A25 2006

ACS output style has errors such as comma after last author in journal references.

Follow the steps below to edit the ACS output style:

• Go to the edit menu and select output styles then open style manager (#1).

• Select ACS in the styles box (#2) and click on the edit button (#3).

• Click on templates under bibliography on the left side of the box (#4).

• Remove the comma after author in the journal article template (#5).

• Close the style by clicking on the small x [Windows] or circle [Mac] and save as a copy (#6).

• Use the ACS copy as the output style (#7).