CHEM 6C: General Chemistry III (Brydges, Spring 2022): ACS Citation Examples

Journal articles, books and book chapters, and patents are easier to cite than other sources.

Citing websites, databases, streaming and social media, government materials, newspapers and magazines from aggregator databases, conference proceedings and presentations, technical reports, updating reference works, and books/chapters in a multi-volume series or set can be more complicated. For many of these sources, there is no single right way to cite them. Do your best to cite so that 1) it's clear what is being cited and 2) someone else can find it. If you cannot find an example to copy exactly, you can often modify an existing format to fit your citation.

• What kind of source is it? 
• Are you citing the entire source or a part of it?
• Can you find authors and/or editors, either individual names or a larger organization?

Here are some example citations; yours may vary slightly depending on what information you have for your reference. Please consult the ACS Style Guide on how to cite other types of sources like books in series or "early view" journal articles that don't yet have volume/page information. If you don't see anything in the guide that marches your resource exactly, you can usually adapt one or more of the existing examples (print newspaper + basic style for online resources to cite an online newspaper article).