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jacs-writing-style
Use when polishing prose to ACS house style and claim discipline for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript. Edits language, structure, and nomenclature — it does not add data or design figures.
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# ACS House Style and Claim Discipline (jacs-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- The data and figures are solid and the manuscript needs language polish
- Prose is wordy, over-claimed, or uses vague boosters ("novel", "very important")
- Nomenclature, units, or abbreviations are inconsistent
- Citation style is not ACS-numbered
## ACS prose conventions
- **Concise and declarative.** State what was done and found; avoid padding and throat-clearing.
- **Tense/voice.** Past tense for what you did and observed; present for established facts. Active voice is acceptable and encouraged in ACS writing where it improves clarity.
- **Compound numbering.** Bold numerals (e.g., **3a**); the same number always means the same structure across text, schemes, and SI.