Americal Chemical Society (ACS) Referencing Style:
Three ways to cite
When using the ACS Referencing Style, you may cite references within the text of your document in one of three ways:
- By author name and year of publication in parentheses.
- .... shown by the evidence (Black, 1997).
- If there are two authors, join them with the word "and" e.g. (Smith and Green, 1996).
- If there are more than two authors of a cited reference, use et al. e.g. (Platt et al., 2004).
- .... shown by the evidence (Black, 1997).
- By numbering with superscript numbers.
- .... shown by the evidence2
- With italic numbers in parentheses.
- .... shown by the evidence (3)
All of these are then correspond with the relevant name or number in the reference list/bibliography.
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