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Nanoscale Science & Engineering: A Brief Guide to Library Resources

Style Guides

ACS Style Guide

The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information (Science Library / Reference: QD 8.5 A25 2006).

ACS Style Quick Guide
This online guide provides examples on citing using the ACS Style.

ACS Citation Style

From Concordia University Libraries, this guide provides a basic indroduction to ACS style.  Containing numerous examples, the guide is based on The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information (Science Library / Reference: QD 8.5 A25 2006).

The Chemistry Style Manual

Written by a chemistry professor at Deakin University in Australia, The Chemistry Style Manual is a book-length manual covering all aspects of chemistry communications, writing, and research. It may be freely downloaded, or used on the Web.

AIP Style Manual

The AIP Style Manual provides guidance and advice for preparing manuscripts for AIP and its member societies' publications. The manual's full text is available from this Web site and in the Science Library's circulating collection (QC 5.45 A45 1990).

AIP-Citing and Referencing
A guide to using AIP from Monash University Libraries

APS Style Guide

APS Style General Guidelines

LaTeX and Friends Accessible to University at Albany users only

Written by M. R. C. van Donegan and published by Springer, this full length book provides introductory and advanced topics on using LaTeX to write articles, books, reports, or theses.

LaTeX Guide

This is a brief tutorial on using LaTeX in Overleaf.

The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
This guide provides detailed instruction on using LaTeX.

Cite Datasets and Link to Publications

From the U.K.'s Digital Curation Centre (DDC), this guide shows how and why to cite data.  It's also available in PDF format.

Citation Managers

Citation managers are tools that can collect and manage pdfs while also creating bibliographies. There are a few options, including:

Zotero
Free. View a guide for additional help.

EndNote
EndNote Online is available to the UAlbany community through Web of Science.

Mendeley
A free citation manager as well as academic social network.