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CHEM C 127 Principles of Chemistry and Biochemistry I Lab, Fall 2024

This guide relates to the lab skills assessment due at the end of lab rotation 1.

How To

Use the Academic Search Database to find the articles you need for this assignment.  You can watch the generic video below to help you with the database.

 

Other Library Databases

The Library subscribes to over 1,000 databases that can assist in finding quality research content.
The A-Z Big List can be searched by simple keyword to find specialized databases (for example, search: environmental and you'll find databases that cover that discipline.)

Citing a Journal Article

To cite a resource, follow the ACS Style Guide. The link provided shows how to cite any type of reference. For our purposes, you will only need to know how to cite journal articles and websites, so that information is copied below. 

Examples
Journal Article
Foster, J. C.; Varlas, S.; Couturaud, B.; Coe, J.; O’Reilly, R. K. Getting into Shape: Reflections on a New Generation of Cylindrical Nanostructures’ Self-Assembly Using Polymer Building Block. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (7), 2742−2753. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08648

Website
ACS Publications Home Page. https://pubs.acs.org/ (accessed 2019-02-21).

Note: As citation formatting is very specific and sometimes tricky, it is helpful to use online citation generators. However, at this current time none of the online citation generators correctly provide an ACS format citation. We will use an online citation generator, then tweak the citation to provide a correct format of an ACS citation. Use the steps below.

Citing a Journal Article, Steps:

  1. After you find your article, find the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This normally starts with “10.10…” and has a random series of numbers and letters. Copy the DOI. 
  2. Go to the Scribbr ACS Citation Generator. Paste the DOI into the search bar, then click Cite. 
  3. Find the entry that matches the authors and title of the article you are citing. 
  4. Compare the citation made with the format above. Make sure all authors are listed, the title is correct, and the year, volume, and page numbers are all included. Additionally, make sure the DOI is in the format of “DOI: …” instead of “http://doi...”. If any information is missing, click “Edit” above the reference. Find the information on the article itself, then input the information to the appropriate field. 
  5. Copy and paste the citation to your desired location. 
  6. Go to CASSI, the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. Use the search of Title or Abbreviation. In the search box, type in the name of the academic journal from your citation. To find this in the citation, look at the text in italics after the name of the journal article and before the year. In the example reference below, the journal title is “Angewandte Chemie, International Edition”. Click search.
  7. Scroll through the search results and find the Publication Title that exactly matches your reference. Select this entry. 
  8. Within the screen shown, find the “Abbreviated Title”. Replace the Journal Title in your reference made in step 4 with the abbreviated title, keeping the italicized formatting. For example, see how the above reference was corrected using the abbreviated journal title.

Result:

Trammel, G. L.; Kannangara, P. B.; Vasko, D.; Datsenko, O.; Mykhailiuk, P.; Brown, M. K. Arylboration of enecarbamates for the synthesis of borylated saturated N‐Heterocycles. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2022, 61 (46), e202212117. DOI:10.1002/anie.202212117.

Citing a Website, Steps:

  1. Copy the website URL into the the Scribbr ACS Citation Generator.
  2. Find the entry that matches the website title and URL. 
  3. Copy and paste the citation to your desired location. 
  4. After the URL, add the date accessed to your citation in parenthesis. 

Result:

Wittig reaction. https://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/wittig-reaction.shtm (accessed 2023-06-12).

Making a References Section
At the end of any writing, citations must be included in a references section. Use the following points to correctly format the references for ACS formatting.

  • The reference list should appear at the end of your paper. 
  • The title References should be either left justified or centered on the page.
  • The entries should appear as one numerical sequence in the order that the material is cited in the text of your assignment.
  • The hanging indent for each reference makes the numerical sequence more obvious.
  • In text citations are formatted as superscript numbers matching the reference number. If at the end of a sentence, put the superscript number after the period.

Final Example

Here is an example text where many different research articles are referenced. Eric Bloch publishes research about porous molecules that can create cages around other molecules.1 Another IU faculty, Kevin Brown, specializes in developing new organic transformations of carbon-carbon double bonds, such as a cycloaddition reaction that uses light to enable the reaction to occur.2 Three other IU professors, Sara Skrabalak, Amar Flood and Yan Yu, not only publish on groundbreaking chemical research, but have also published articles on mentoring graduate students and their training.3
References:

  1. Dworzak, M. R.; Sampson, J.; Montone, C. M.; Korman, K. J.; Yap, G. P. A.; Bloch, E. D. Postsynthetic modification of Calixarene-Based porous coordination cages. Chem. Mater. 2024, 36 (2), 752-758. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02187.
  2. Liu, Y.; Brown, M. K. Photosensitized [2 + 2]-Cycloadditions of dioxaborole: Reactivity enabled by Boron ring Constraint Strategy. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (46), 25061-25067.  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08105.
  3. Flood, A. H.; Skrabalak, S. E.; Yu, Y. Individual development plans — experiences made in graduate student training. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2021, 413 (23), 5681–5684.  DOI: 10.1007/s00216-021-03540-z.