Discusses requirements, general rules, and regulations for successfully and correctly citing the scientific literature and especially the chemical literature. Provides further reading and examples of citations in ACS style for journal articles, books, and book chapters. Presents two examples for common literature reference management software. This presentation is a short part of a two-lesson course block about topic searching, citation databases, preparing and printing posters, and citing scientific literature in the lecture "Naturwissenschaften und Gesellschaft 3" (Science and Society 3).