ACS Citation Generator
Paste DOIs and copy references in ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication.
Paste one or more DOIs and the tool formats them in ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication using the official Citation Style Language style, with metadata from Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. You can switch to any other journal style on the same page.
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Questions
What does a journal article look like in ACS style?
For the AlphaFold paper the generator gives: (1) Jumper, J.; Evans, R.; Pritzel, A.; … Hassabis, D. Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold. Nature 2021, 596 (7873), 583–589. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2
How do in-text citations work in ACS?
ACS journals number citations in order of appearance, shown as superscripts or italic numbers in parentheses depending on the journal. Some ACS journals use author-date instead.
How many authors do I list in ACS?
ACS lists every author, separated by semicolons, with initials after the surname. The ellipsis in the example above is only to shorten it here.
How do I cite a DOI in ACS?
Paste the DOI, one per line, and press Continue. The generator reads the publisher's Crossref record and formats it in ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication. Paste up to 50 DOIs to build a whole reference list.
Can I format for a specific journal instead?
Yes. Press Change above the results and search by journal name or abbreviation. The list covers more than 10,800 journal styles from the Citation Style Language repository used by Zotero and Mendeley.
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