Chemistry

This library research guide offers some of the key databases, book catalogs, journals, and more for the broad discipline of Chemistry.

Citing and Writing

ACS Style Guide

ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
The new ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication. Covers all instructions from previous editions of The ACS Style Guide - completely updated and modernized - as well as a wealth of brand new chapters covering everything from preprints, Open Access, machine-readable data, and much more.

The ACS Style Guide
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Call Number: 540.02 D661a
Includes chapters on ethics in scientific publication, writing style and word usage, copyright basics, conventions in chemistry, references, and more. Available as an ebook.

Quick Guide to Citing and Using the ACS Style Guide
From Pennsylvania State University's Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library
CASSI Search Tool
ACS Style requires authors to abbreviate journal titles. Chemical Abstracts Source Index (CASSI) allows you to look up these standard abbreviations for journal titles.

Mendeley Citation Manager

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Mendeley guides
Mendeley troubleshooting for Word plugin

Chemistry Writing and Guides to the Literature

Write Like a Chemist by Marin S. Robinson; Fredricka L. Stoller; Molly Costanza-Robinson; James K. Jones
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Call Number: ONLINE & 808.0665 R564
Publication Date: 2020
Available as an ebook and print book.
The Literature of Chemistry by Judith A. Douville
Call Number: Ref 540.16 D749
Publication Date: 2004

Chemical Information Sources
A wikibook maintained by the Chemical Information (CINF) division of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Scientific Writing and Presentations

The Art of Scientific Writing
Call Number: Ref 808.0665 E32
Doing Science: Design, Analysis, and Communication of Scientific Research
Call Number: 507.2 V238a

Writing

SMC Library's Annotated Bibliographies and Literature Reviews tutorials.

Having trouble putting it all together? The SMC Center for Writing Across the Curriculum (CWAC) offers peer-to-peer advising sessions.

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