How to format your references using the FACETS citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for FACETS. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Wain-Hobson S. 2006. The third Bond. Nature, 439(7076): 539.

A journal article with 2 authors

Margules CR, and Pressey RL. 2000. Systematic conservation planning. Nature, 405(6783): 243–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krauss LM, Dodelson S, and Meyer S. 2010. Primordial gravitational waves and cosmology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5981): 989–992.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wardle DA, Hörnberg G, Zackrisson O, Kalela-Brundin M, and Coomes DA. 2003. Long-term effects of wildfire on ecosystem properties across an island area gradient. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5621): 972–975.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Hahn GJ, and Doganaksoy N. 2011. A Career in Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Islam SMN. 2005. Empirical Finance: Modelling and Analysis of Emerging Financial and Stock Markets. Edited by S Watanapalachaikul. (Contributions to Economics). Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg. XIV, 201 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Blömker D, and Hairer M. 2005. Amplitude Equations for Spdes: Approximate Centre Manifolds and Invariant Measures. In Probability and Partial Differential Equations in Modern Applied Mathematics. Edited by EC Waymire and J Duan. Springer, New York, NY. (Arnold DN, and Santosa F, editors. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications). pp. 41–59.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for FACETS.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015 Jun 2. Type 2 Diabetes Might Be Caused By Your Bacteria. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/type-2-diabetes-might-be-caused-your-bacteria/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 1980. Circumstances Surrounding Contract Award. B-198750. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

McKenzie RA. 2012. A correlational study of servant leadership and teacher job satisfaction in a public education institution. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Brantley B. 2016 Nov 14. Sorry, Wrong Number, but Hey, Let’s Have a Talk. New York Times.:C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Wain-Hobson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Margules and Pressey 2000; Wain-Hobson 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Margules and Pressey 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wardle et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	FACETS
ISSN (online)	2371-1671
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