[Tex/LaTex] Citation with ACS style and superscript

biblatexbibliographies

I'm using biblatex and biber to generate my bibliography:

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=chem-acs]{biblatex}

but it doesn't look like proposed here: http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem/biblatex-chem-acs.pdf

It rather looks like shown here: https://de.sharelatex.com/learn/Biblatex_bibliography_styles

As I understood the style is set automatically. Does that mean it is the new standard ACS style or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you


Thank you for the prompt answers and sorry for being unprecise. For the first link how I expected it so see it with the superscript and reference listing is as follows:

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The second link provides how I have it in my thesis

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Best Answer

biblatex-chem does not modify the behaviour of \cite, it still gives a normal citation number (this is in line with what most other styles do as well). Ideally you should use \autocite to get citations as desired by the style, in case of chem-acs you then get superscript citations as desired. \autocite is at a higher level of abstraction because its behaviour can be changed with a simple option.

As mentioned in the comments the round parentheses you see in the bibliography are in compliance with the style required for the J. Am. Chem. Soc. The ACS also has some journals with a slightly different style that requires a dots after the numbers. The option biblabel can be used to control the format of the label number in the bibliography. The default settings of chem-acs give you the parentheses, but earlier versions of the style documentation biblatex-chem-acs.pdf would load chem-acs with the option biblabel=dot (from version 1.1v 2018-09-06 onward, biblatex-chem's style documentations use the normal settings of their respective style).

The following MWE shows chem-acs with the settings for the J. Am. Chem. Soc.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=chem-acs]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem\autocite{sigfridsson}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Lorem<sup>1</sup>\(1) Sigfridsson, E.; Ryde, U. Journal of Computational Chemistry 1998, 19, 377–395.

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