Submission & Review

The ACS Paragon Plus Environment is a real-time, Web-based system that provides a manuscript submission and peer review environment with the high level of quality you’ve come to expect from ACS.

• Author & Reviewer Instructions
• Manuscript Submission and Peer Review
• Learn more about ACS Paragon Plus

The third edition of The ACS Style Guide continues its long tradition of providing invaluable insight on ethics in scientific communication, the editorial process, copyright, conventions in chemistry, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and writing style for any STM author, reviewer, or editor.

Copyright/Permissions

Forms and guidelines for copyright transfer and permission requests, the NIH Policy Addendum, plus ACS policy on theses and dissertations, where to send signed copyright forms, and general copyright information for chemists.

Author Benefits & Services

At ACS we recognize and appreciate the high-quality contributions of our Authors and Reviewers as part of the ACS Cycle of Excellence.

Thanks to your contributions, ACS remains the most-cited publisher in chemistry and its related disciplines.

With initiatives like ACS AuthorChoice, and tools like Citation Manager Functionality, ACS is committed to making sure your published research is quickly accessible to researchers around the world.

ACS Articles on Request allows authors to share free electronic PDF downloads (e-prints) 12 months after publication.

ACS Author Choice is a new policy that facilitates unrestricted Web access to your published ACS article—at the time of publication—for a one-time fixed payment provided by you or your funding agency.

News and Announcements

ACS Paragon Plus Maintenance Tuesday, May 13
The ACS Paragon Plus Environment will be unavailable for manuscript submission and peer review from 9-11 p.m. EST/DST Tuesday, May 13 while we perform system maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Excellence
A Newsletter for Contributors to the ACS Cycle of Excellence focused on news you can use—interviews, calls for papers, and feature articles on topics of interest to Authors and Reviewers.

ACS PUBS Features

RSS Feeds
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Articles ASAP
With the Articles ASAP (Articles As Soon As Publishable) service, articles are posted online to ACS Web Editions within days of author approval.

E-mail Alerts
When you sign up for E-mail Alerts, you're immediately notified when an article or issue from your selected journal(s) is posted to the Web.