ACS Style: Books--Example

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ACS Style Books--Example

• Le Couteur, P. Burreson, J. Napoleons
• Buttons How 17 Molecules Changed
• History Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
• New York, 2003 pp 32-47.

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ACS Style Books without Editors

• Author, A.A. Author B.B. Author, C.C. etc.
  Chapter Title. Book Title, Edition Number Series
  Information (if any) Publisher Place of
  Publication, Year Volume Number, Pagination.
• Author, A.A. Author, B.B. Author, C.C.
• Book Title, Edition Number Series Information
  (if any) Publisher Place of Publication, Year
  Volume Number, Pagination.

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ACS Style Books with Editors

• Author, A.A. Author B.B. Author, C.C. etc.
  Chapter Title. In Book Title, Edition Number
  Series Information (if any) Publisher Place of
  Publication, Year Volume Number, Pagination.
• Author, A.A. Author, B.B. Author, C.C. In
• Book Title, Edition Number Series Information
  (if any) Publisher Place of Publication, Year
  Volume Number, Pagination.

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ACS Style Books--Author Name Field

• Separate the names of multiple authors by
  semicolons
• End the author field with a period
• List names in inverted form surname first, then
  first initial, middle initial and qualifiers
  (Jr., II)
• If no primary authors, may place the editor names
  in the author name field
• Acronyms for every well know organization may be
  used for works written by an Organization or a
  Committee

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ACS Style Books--Chapter Title

• Not essential
• Set in roman type
• End with a period

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ACS Style Books--Book Title

• Essential, should not be abbreviated
• Set in italic type
• The edition number follows the book title, set
  off by an italic comma and set in roman type

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ACS Style Books--Editor Name Field

• List names of editors after title and edition
  information
• Separated from one another by commas
• Use Eds. or Ed. after the final name
• End the field with a semicolon

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ACS Style Books-- Publication Information

• Name of Publisher
• Do not abbreviate publishers names
• Co., Inc, Publisher and Press are not essential
• Place of Publication
• Give the city and state
• Use the two-letter postal abbreviations for
  states
• Year of Publication
• Set in lightface roman type
• End the field with period or a semicolon if
  further information is given.

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ACS Style BooksVolume Field

• Use the following abbreviations and spell-out
  forms
• Abstract, Chapter, No. , Paper, Part, Vol.
• If a set of books as a while is the reference, do
  not include individual volume information

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ACS Style Books--Pagination Field

• Use p and pp to indicate single and multiple
  pages
• p 15 pp 1259-1270 2004 pp 55-61
• e f or ff to indicate pagination in reference
  citations
• 50 f (page 50 and the page following-pages 50
  and 51)
• 50 ff (page 50 and the pages following)
• If the book as a whole is the reference, pages
  numbers can be omitted