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Editorial Cite This: ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 1817−1817

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ACS Publications’ Launch of Review Ready Submission Brings Changes to ACS Catalysis

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n February 2018, ACS Publications launches “Review Ready Submission” throughout the portfolio, providing authors with a common format that will be acceptable for a first submission to all ACS journals. While authors still must adhere to journal-specific scientific requirements, this new policy will allow authors to prepare their manuscripts using a single formatting standard acceptable for any ACS journal. This will also streamline the potential for transfer of manuscripts within the ACS portfolio by eliminating the need to reformat manuscripts for the destination journal. For the most up-todate information from ACS Publications regarding Review Ready Submission, visit http://pubs.acs.org/paragonplus/ submission/accacs/accacs_authguide.pdf. Specifically, in the new Review Ready format, authors will be asked to adhere to the following standard practices: • Journal-specific scientific requirements will still be enforced. • Submissions must be complete with clearly identified standard sections used to report original research, free of annotations or highlights, and include all numbered and labeled components (figures, charts, tables, and schemes). • Figures, charts, tables, schemes, and equations should be embedded in the text; separate graphics may be requested at revision. • When required by a journal’s structure or length limitations, manuscript templates should be used. • Supporting Information should be submitted as a separate file. • Author names and affiliations on the manuscript must match what is entered into ACS Paragon Plus. • References can be provided in any style, but they must include titles and they must be complete. For ACS Catalysis, these changes will bring one noteworthy change to the final published product. Because the new Review Ready Submission guidelines require inclusion of journal titles in the references for all submissions, the journal will begin including titles in the reference list for future published articles. To this end, there will be a transition period over the near term where we will publish some papers that include titles in the references and some that do not. However, by mid-2018 and moving forward for the foreseeable future, all ACS Catalysis articles will be published with titles in the reference list. I expect this change will have a positive impact on researchers, making identification of the most important and relevant references in a publication easier, streamlining and accelerating research. Of course, we will continue to look for ways to improve our customer service in the future, in parallel with our key mission of publishing the most impactful work in catalysis.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Christopher W. Jones: 0000-0003-3255-5791 Notes

Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.

Christopher W. Jones, Editor-in-Chief Georgia Institute of Technology

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DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00238 ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 1817−1817