8. Cite Sources (~10 min) - LANG 2010 - English for Science I - LibGuides at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library

Citation Style

Please consult your LANG instructors for the required citation style.

Do you remember learning about citation in LANG 1403 or LANG 1404? You have already learn APA style. As Science Student, you are goins to learn one of the Science Citation Styles, ACS style. To better manage your citation, citation tools and citing AI content are introduced.

More tips available from A Guide to Good Referencing Skills

American Chemical Society (ACS) Style

Video on How to Cite in ACS Style ( 3 min 12 sec)

Book in Library Book Collection:

The ACS style guide: effective communication of scientific information

Good Resources on the Web:

ACS Quick Style Guide - from the American Chemical Society
ACS Style Guide - from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Citing Your Sources: ACS: Style - from Williams College Librarie

Generate Citations

Generate Quick Citations (reference list only)
Reference Management Tools (in-text citations + reference list)

With a citation generator, you enter your source bibliographic information in order to produce a citation in your selected format that you can copy and paste into your paper. There are lots of free citation generators on the web to choose from, here is a selected list of citation generators:

If you have many references to handle and hope to reuse them in your future work, we suggest you use reference management software instead.

Reference management tools

lets you create your own database of the references you collect while searching the literature
has a plug-in to automatically format the citations in Word, and produce a list of references at the end of the document formatted in the style of your choice (e.g. APA, IEEE, MLA).
share your references with your teammates or collaborators

Free reference management tools include:

Citing AI Generated Content

At present, most citation styles do not have specific guidelines for referencing ChatGPT or other GenAI tools. Some publishers (e.g. ACS Publications ) stated that Artificial intelligence (AI) tools do not qualify for authorship. However, it does not mean that you can use those AI tools without any acknowledgement or disclosure. You should

Check to see how their professors, publishers, or academic peers want such acknowledgement to be made.
Carefully review and edit the results, because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased.

"AI Literacy for End-Users: Citing & Acknowledging AI" Libguide provides you more recommendation for citing AI generated content in different citation styles.