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Free ACS Citation Style Generator
ACS citation generator for chemistry journals and researchers. Bold publication years, italicized volume numbers, and CASSI standard journal abbreviations.
Formatted ACS Reference List Entry
Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, Ł., & Polosukhin, I. Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2017, 30, 5998-6008.
In-Text Citation:
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Core Formatting Rules for ACS Citation Style
Authors listed as Last Name, Initials; separated by semicolons.
Publication year is bolded (e.g., 2024).
Journal volume number is italicized (e.g., 142).
Journal names are abbreviated following CAS Source Index (CASSI).
ACS Citation Style Citation Examples
Reference List Entry:
Vaswani, A.; Shazeer, N.; Parmar, N.; Uszkoreit, J.; Jones, L.; Gomez, A. N.; Kaiser, Ł.; Polosukhin, I. Attention is all you need. Adv. Neural Inf. Process. Syst. 2017, 30, 5998-6008.
In-Text Citation Format:
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is unique about author separation in ACS style?
ACS uses semicolons to separate co-authors, with a period after each author's initials.
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