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CHEM 110: Core Concepts in Context

ACS Quick Style Guide

The ACS citation format is detailed in the open access section 4.3.3 of the ACS Quick Style Guide

This is part of The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communications.  Please note that the entire guide requires a subscription which Duke does not have at this time.  

For additional information, see the ACS Style Guide examples from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

What needs to be cited?

  • Quoted information
  • Paraphrased information
  • Results
  • Images
  • Materials & Methods
  • Anything that is not your original research or ideas

Read more about avoiding plagiarism and why citing your source matters.

ACS citation example

Diagram of a Journal Article Citation. The example citation here lists the following components, in the correct order for a citation: author, article title, journal title, date, volume, issue, and page numbers.


From:  UCLA Library

Citation Management Tools

Citation tools allow you to save and organize your research. They also let you create formatted bibliographies in Word.

Downloadable as a standalone program from OIT, EndNote is a powerful citation tool for organizing your research and creating formatted citations. In addition to the standalone option, you can create an EndNote Web account.

Zotero

Downloadable as a standalone program or a Firefox extension, Zotero is designed to store content in any format, including PDFs, images, audio and video files, and snapshots of web pages. Zotero operates with thousands of sites, and automatically indexes your library for ease of access.

Free PDF and reference manager. Read, annotate, organize, and collaborate on research projects with others using Mendeley.