Chemistry

Resources to help you follow the APA, MLA or CSE style guidelines for formatting and citing information sources.

2020 (updated biannually). "The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication covers everything from classic journal authoring topics (now completely modernized) such as Organization of Your Article and Peer Review, to styling conventions needed for all scholarly communication, such as Chemical Nomenclature and Effective Writing and Word Usage, to emerging areas of interest in scholarly communication, including Open Access & Open Science, Sharing Data, Communicating Safety Information, and Preprints."

Use to look up journal abbreviations used in chemistry. Published by the ACS (American Chemical Society). This is a comprehensive, highly international list of all periodical titles indexed in the SciFinder/Chemical Abstracts database.

5 page PDF. Short & efficient guide to IEEE/engineering citation format.

54 page PDF. Citation formats and editorial guidelines for IEEE Transactions, Journals, and Letters. Includes abbreviations for IEEE publications.