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A Note from Professor Sumerlin
In the chemistry department, we use the ACS (American Chemical Society) Style Guide. Most of this is fairly standard stuff, and the guide allows for some variation. The ACS publishes a lot of journals, and they do not all have exactly the same documentation rules.
For me personally, I prefer that students cite references in the text by author and date, as for example:
The primary structure of this enzyme has also been determined (Dardel et. al., 1984).
All the references would be listed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order by author.
