Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials publishes scientific articles on structural science. According to the journal: "Knowledge of the arrangements of atoms, including their temporal variations and dependencies on temperature and pressure, is often the key to understanding physical and chemical phenomena and is crucial for the design of new materials and supramolecular devices." It was formed in 1968 when the journal Acta Crystallographica was split into two parts and has been published for the International Union of Crystallography under the following titles:

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Biological Abstracts • Cambridge Structural Database • Ceramic Abstracts • Chemical Abstracts Service • Chemistry Citation Index • Current Chemical Reactions Database • Current Contents/ Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences • Inorganic Crystal Structure Database • Inspec • ISI Chemistry Reaction Center • Medline • Metals Abstracts/METADEX • Materials Science Citation Index • Nucleic Acid Database • Protein Data Bank • Reaction Citation Index • Research Alert • Science Citation Index • Science Citation Index Expanded • SCISEARCH • Scopus