ACS Presentation / Conference Talk Citation Generator

Citing a presentation / conference talk (academic lecture, poster, or slide deck) under the American Chemical Society (ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication) framework requires combining American Chemical Society (ACS)'s punctuation hierarchy with the specific metadata of the source. To construct a compliant entry, researchers must collect the presenter(s), presentation date range, presentation or poster title, presentation type (e.g., Conference session, Poster presentation), conference name, and location. In the body of your paper, American Chemical Society (ACS) utilizes superscript numbers, italicized numbers in parentheses, or author-year parentheticals depending on the chemical journal, which links directly to an entry organized in numerical sequence by order of citation or alphabetical by primary chemist surname.

When formatting a presentation / conference talk in American Chemical Society (ACS), pay close attention to contributor names and capitalization. Specifically, American Chemical Society (ACS) enforces last name followed by initials with periods and spaces, separating multiple contributors with semicolons (e.g., Doe, J. A.; Roe, R. B.), and applies Title Case for both article titles and book titles, paired with official CASSI abbreviations for chemical periodicals. ACS uniquely separates multiple authors with semicolons rather than commas and formats journal publication years in boldface type. Furthermore, if your presentation / conference talk does not display an individual creator, the rule is straightforward: credit the academic department, lab group, or organization that delivered the presentation.

For digital and online presentation / conference talk references, American Chemical Society (ACS) stipulates including the full https://doi.org/ link and requiring an "(accessed YYYY-MM-DD)" timestamp for non-DOI web resources. If you are citing lecture slides uploaded to a university Learning Management System (like Canvas or Blackboard), include the LMS name and login URL. Using the client-side American Chemical Society (ACS) Presentation / Conference Talk generator below, you can automatically parse URLs, DOIs, or ISBNs and apply these exact Citation Style Language (CSL) rules locally in your browser with zero server tracking.