Citing Your Sources

Find out how to cite your sources using the citation styles most commonly used at Ursinus

ACS - American Chemical Society style

ACS Style is mainly used in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and related natural sciences.

Example Article Reference: Goodney, P.P. Why Do We Write? J. Vasc. Surg. 2019, 69 (5), 1566-1567. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2018.09.024.

Helpful Resources:

ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication This link opens in a new window
The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication is the updated, online version of the ACS Style Guide. It includes all the content of the previous style guide, such as formatting manuscripts and citing scholarly literature, as well as new chapters covering preprints, open access, machine-readable data, and more.

ACS Quick Style Guide
This chapter from the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication provides sample references for common materials, such as journal articles and ebooks.

The ACS Style Guide, 3rd. ed. by Anne M. Coghill (Editor); Lorrin R. Garson (Editor)
Call Number: Chemistry Department 540.72 AC78 2006
ISBN: 9780841239999
Publication Date: 2006
The ACS Style Guide, 3rd. ed. is the last printed manual to ACS Style. Our copy is housed in the Chemistry Library.

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