From: UCLA Library
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?
Read more about avoiding plagiarism and why citing your source matters.
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.
This feature will look for and then download full-text PDFs of articles in your references. You will have to authenticate with your NetID so that EndNote knows which journals you can access through Duke Libraries.
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. Zotero is open access (free!).
