Talk:ACS style

External Link

External link leads to an error page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.236.176.90 (talk) 04:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Geophysical citation

Is this article wrong or are there different formats for other physical sciences? The geophysical papers I'm looking at all cite their sources in the form

[Last name] [First initial][Middle initial if any], [Last name] [First initial][Middle initial if any], [unitalicized et al. after the 5th name if needed]. [Year]. [Article name without quotes or italics]. [Italicized journal name] [Volume #]:[Page #(s)]

not the one given in this article. -LlywelynII (talk) 16:02, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

I have no doubt other disciplines have different styles (either "their own", or APA, MLA, or some other standard style). Heck, even some chemistry journals from publishers other than ACS itself don't even use ACS style. Does the article here actually say it's the only standard, or covers the specific publisher of your journal of interest? DMacks (talk) 16:20, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Automated way of doing this?

I have always hated the actual formatting of the citations because it's never intuitive to me (I learned MLA in school then APA then IEEE and now I find myself needing to use ACS). I used to use Easybib (a website that automatically formats citations for you after you input the requisite information) for English essays to do MLA and I think APA as well but I don't know of anything for ACS. Everyone just points me the way of the style guide. I have LibreOffice. ACS lets you download citations in EndNote form or BibTeX form. Since I started writing in LibreOffice, the second one probably isn't all that useful to me. I don't know if EndNote works with anything related to LibreOffice.

If someone knows, please comment below. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.114.197.85 (talk) 05:53, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Move and re-scope

This should move to ACS Style Manual and be rescoped to cover the work, with the style stuff it recommends as a subtopic, along with publication history, etc., the way we treat AMA Manual of Style, MLA Style Manual, The Chicago Manual of Style, New Hart's Rules, etc.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼