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Chemistry: Citation Styles and EndNote

Journal Title Abbreviations

ACS style uses abbreviations of journal titles

 
EndNote is software for Windows or for MacOS that
  • stores details about your references
  • imports details directly from databases
  • creates citations in thousands of styles
  • automatically formats your bibliography in Word

It is free to use while you are at UC

 

A free reference manager for generating in-text citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice and LaTeX

Zotero

A free citation management tool that allows you to save, annotate and format citations in order to create a
bibliography.

Citation Generators

For a quick and simple citation in one of the interdisciplinary styles, try

The ACS (American Chemical Society) citation style is used by the Department of Chemistry

ACS referencing with EndNote

Locally updated ACS output styles that improve on those in EndNote’s standard package
  • The output styles are available on UC student and staff computers.
    • In EndNote, click the drop-down on the top left of screen and click “Select Another Style…” to find them. Their names all start “ACS-UC-…”; as explained below, the one to choose is probably “ACS-UC-Ungrouped”
  • Since June 2016 they are included in the Additional Files downloadable from the EndNote Guide for your own computer. The output styles are also downloadable individually below.
EndNote converts full journal titles to their abbreviated versions

In short, you add a “terms list” once to your EndNote library (which will work correctly for most journal titles); after that you can add any other titles as required.


Citations are needed

  • To give credit to the author
     
  • To prove you're basing your work on solid research
     
  • So readers can learn more
     
  • To avoid being marked down!

 

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