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ACS Style Guide - References

The revised version of this chapter was released on April 8, 2025. This guide will be updated in April/May 2025 to reflect those changes.


This guide is an overview for citing references using ACS Style guidelines, as set in the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication, the revised "4th edition" of The ACS Style Guide, released in 2020. 


Based on: Vogel, T. M.; Cardinal, S. K.; Butkovich, N.; Wrublewski, D.; Baysinger, G. References. In The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication; Banik, G. M., Baysinger, G., Kamat, P. V., Pienta, N. J., Eds.; American Chemical Society, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acsguide.40301


Contact: Teri Vogel (tmvogel@ucsd.edu)