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Citation Styles
A guide to some of the citation styles
American Chemical Society (ACS) Scholarly Communication Guide
Formerly the ACS Style Guide, the new ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication began January 2020 and offers regular updates
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American Chemical Society (ACS) Scholarly Communication GuideAccess the full text of the guide from here.
Style Manual
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The ACS Style Guide by In the time since the second edition of The ACS Style Guide was published, the rapid growth of electronic communication has dramatically changed the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publication world. This dynamic mode of dissemination is enabling scientists, engineers, and medicalpractitioners all over the world to obtain and transmit information quickly and easily. An essential constant in this changing environment is the requirement that information remain accurate, clear, unambiguous, and ethically sound. This extensive revision of The ACS Style Guide thoroughly examines electronic tools now available to assist STM writers in preparing manuscripts and communicating with publishers. Valuable updates include discussions of markup languages, citation of electronic sources, online submission ofmanuscripts, and preparation of figures, tables, and structures. In keeping current with the changing environment, this edition also contains references to many resources on the internet. With this wealth of new information, The ACS Style Guide's Third Edition continues its long tradition of providing invaluable insight on ethics in scientific communication, the editorial process, copyright, conventions in chemistry, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and writing style for any STMauthor, reviewer, or editor. The Third Edition is the definitive source for all information needed to write, review, submit, and edit scholarly and scientific manuscripts.Call Number: QD8.5 .A25 2006ISBN: 9780841239999
Typical ACS Journal Citation
A typical ACS journal citation follows the following basic style:
Bunnett, J. F.; Kearley, F. J., Jr.; J. Org. Chem., 1971, 36, 184-186.
- The authors are listed last name, first initial(s).
- The journal is italicized and listed in abbreviated form (more about that below).
- The year is listed in bold font.
- The journal volume is listed in italicized font.
- The starting and ending pages are listed separated by a hyphen.
Sometimes you will see the article title given between the author names and the journal abbreviation, but usually not. This is because titles can be very long and include non-standard symbols or fonts. See Chapter 14 of the ACS Style Guide for more information.
Journal Abbreviations
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CASSI - Chemical Abstracts Services Source IndexA listing of both journal abbreviations to journal titles and vise-versa. However, it is limited to publications indexed by CAS.
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NLM's Abridged Index Medicus (AIM)Biological and clinical journals indexed in the AIM may have a different abbreviation, more info can be found on the linked page.