The ACS guide to scholarly communication by The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communications is a how-to for ACS citation style, and for the basic structure of a scientific paper. It is an eBook, available to you immediately at the link above.
Citing your sources properly means you are giving proper credit to others for their ideas, and avoiding plagiarism. It's also an important part of participating in conversations about Science.
Check with your professor to confirm which citation style you should use, and use the citation management tools and online guides below to make citation easy for yourself!
Use these free online tools to save your citations and format them correctly, helping you create in-text citations and works cited pages.
Mendeley: An excellent tool for saving articles and creating citations and References list in Word as you write; works great with ONESearch. Download both the Mendeley Reference Manager and Mendeley Cite (to integrate with Word). Not recommended for Macs.
Zotero: Recommended for Macs. Works especially well with websites. Integrates with both Word and Google Docs. Download both Zotero AND the Zotero Connector when prompted.
Use these online tools to formulate or check your citations!