Research and Course Guides: Physics for the Liberal Arts : Citing Sources

Citing Sources Guide

Check our Citing Sources guide for more information on why, and how, you should cite your sources.

Preferred formats for citations can vary among scholarly disciplines, departments, professors, or individual journal publishers.

Common citation styles in the natural sciences are:

Physics: AIP (American Institute of Physics) Style		The AIP Style Manual (4 th ed., 1990) is out of print and has not been updated, but is available online in PDF format from the American Institute of Physics. See page 12 for example citations.

Chemistry: ACS (American Chemical Society) Style		The latest edition of the ACS Style Guide is available in O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Reference: QD8.5 .A25 2006. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Library has created an excellent website on ACS Style Guidelines.

General Science: CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style		Scientific style and format: the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers is available in Reference at O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library: T 11 .S386 2006 The University of North Carolina libraries have created a helpful web guide for learning CSE style.

General Science: Following the recommendations of international scientific bodies such as IUPAC and IUPAP		New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors is available online.
See the UST Libraries Citing Sources page for additional style guides, including MLA (Modern Language Association, generally humanities), APA (American Psychological Association, generally social sciences), and the Chicago Manual of Style.

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