The use of the achemso
package is recommended when using the achemso
bibliography style as it provides a convenient interface to alter the control values used by the style. However, it's perfectly possible to use the bibliography style without the package. To do that, the key thing to bear in mind is that it's a numbered natbib
style, and so you should be loading the natbib
package with the numbers
option
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@ARTICLE{Abernethy2003,
author = {Colin D. Abernethy and Gareth M. Codd and Mark D. Spicer
and Michelle K. Taylor},
title = {{A} highly stable {N}-heterocyclic carbene complex of
trichloro-oxo-vanadium(\textsc{v}) displaying novel
{C}l---{C}(carbene) bonding interactions},
journal = {{J}. {A}m. {C}hem. {S}oc.},
year = {2003},
volume = {125},
pages = {1128--1129},
number = {5},
doi = {10.1021/ja0276321},
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[sort&compress,numbers,super]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{achemso}
\begin{document}
Text\cite{Abernethy2003}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
If you want to be able to control the output of the bibliography, for example setting whether or not article titles are included, then you need to have a special 'control' database entry, and to cite this. That can be achieved in basically the same way the package works:
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@ARTICLE{Abernethy2003,
author = {Colin D. Abernethy and Gareth M. Codd and Mark D. Spicer
and Michelle K. Taylor},
title = {{A} highly stable {N}-heterocyclic carbene complex of
trichloro-oxo-vanadium(\textsc{v}) displaying novel
{C}l---{C}(carbene) bonding interactions},
journal = {{J}. {A}m. {C}hem. {S}oc.},
year = {2003},
volume = {125},
pages = {1128--1129},
number = {5},
doi = {10.1021/ja0276321},
}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname-control.bib}
@Control{achemso-control,
ctrl-article-title = "no",
ctrl-chapter-title = "no",
ctrl-etal-number = "15",
ctrl-etal-firstonly = "yes",
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[sort&compress,numbers,super]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{achemso}
\AtBeginDocument{\nocite{achemso-control}}
\begin{document}
Text\cite{Abernethy2003}
\bibliography{\jobname,\jobname-control}
\end{document}
or of course you can add the control entry to your main .bib
file. Hopefully the control entries are clear enough.