Writing Helps
Citation & Style Guide
Academic disciplines often use the citation style of their 'core' journals. Chemists use the style of the American Chemical Society journals, but generally speaking, you should use the citation style required by your professor.
- ACS Guide to Scholarly CommunicationAn updated version of the ACS Style Guide, expanded and modernized to reflect changes in scholarly communication
- The ACS Style GuideThird edition available online from ACS
Reference management systems
Organize your documents, collect and cite sources, and create bibliographies in a variety of citation styles. The Bloomsburg University Library supports two research management systems, RefWorks and EndNote Online. For this class, you'll be using RefWorks.
- RefWorks Proquest loginDirect login to RefWorks. For help in using, visit the RefWorks guide or view the RefWorks YouTube channel.
- ZoteroIf you use the Firefox web browser, you might want to try Zotero - a browser based citation managing Firefox extension. Both Firefox and Zotero can be run from a USB drive.
Sample citations in ACS Style
Chem Abstracts Journal Abbreviations
- Journal Title Abbreviations (Core Journals Covered in CAplus)Lists the journal abbreviation (short title), complete journal title and other info for the key/core journals indexed in the CAplus file on STN.