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Chemistry

Methods and Techniques

This article briefly covers the common techniques of analytical chemistry. Follow links within the article for more detailed articles in AccessScience about particular techniques.

Here are some examples of ebooks about techniques in Analytical Chemistry.  Check the Tables of Contents for useful chapters or sections.  If none of these is relevant to your topic, use the Books at Meredith search in the box below to find other ebooks.

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The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society provides access to the most-cited peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences.

Use the ACS Journals Search to search for articles across all ACS journals.  You can limit to Open Access Content to find freely available articles.

For articles that are not Open Access, Meredith chemistry faculty and students may order them using our Interlibrary Loan service.  Articles will be delivered to you electronically within 24 hours (excluding weekends). There is no charge to you for ordering articles from ACS.

Mendeley

Mendeley is a free research management tool that allows you to collect and organize the sources that you find in library databases and on the internet.  Mendeley offers the ability to share references and collaborate with others in groups, and it integrates with Microsoft Word, allowing you to automatically insert citations into a Word document and generate bibliographies using a variety of citation styles.    

Mendeley works particularly well with the Scopus database, allowing seamless exporting of citations from Scopus into your Mendeley reference library.

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ACS Style

ACS Style Guide

Developed by the American Chemical Society, this style may be used for research papers in the field of chemistry.  This guide describes basic examples for citing sources in ACS style according to the 3rd edition of the ACS Style Guide.

The most recent edition of The ACS Style Guide can be found in the Reference stacks (R 808.06554 Ac78c)

 

To see examples of in-text citations and bibliography entries in ACS Style, see: