How to format your references using the Facies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Facies. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Conley DJ (2012) Ecology: save the Baltic Sea. Nature 486:463–464

A journal article with 2 authors

McLean PF, Cooley L (2013) Protein equilibration through somatic ring canals in Drosophila. Science 340:1445–1447

A journal article with 3 authors

Sagy A, Reches Z, Fineberg J (2002) Dynamic fracture by large extraterrestrial impacts as the origin of shatter cones. Nature 418:310–313

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gedik N, Orenstein J, Liang R, et al (2003) Diffusion of nonequilibrium quasi-particles in a cuprate superconductor. Science 300:1410–1412

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yavaş M (2011) Applied English Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Benvenisti E, Gans C, Hanafi S (eds) (2007) Israel and the Palestinian Refugees. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fitz D, Jakschitz T, Rode BM (2011) Salt-Induced Peptide Formation in Chemical Evolution: Building Blocks Before RNA – Potential of Peptide Splicing Reactions. In: Egel R, Lankenau D-H, Mulkidjanian AY (eds) Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 109–127

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 Facies.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Dung Beetles Orient By Taking Snapshots Of Celestial Scenery. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2002) Commercial Aviation: Financial Condition and Industry Responses Affect Competition. 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

Diaz Gonzalez AJ (2017) High-Pressure Study of Bio-inspired Multi-Functional Nanocomposites Using Atomic Force Microscopy Methods. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Rashbaum WK, McKINLEY JC Jr (2014) 106 Are Charged in Lengthy Fraud Over Disabilities. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Conley 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Conley 2012; McLean and Cooley 2013).

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

Two authors: (McLean and Cooley 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gedik et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Facies
Abbreviation	Facies
ISSN (print)	0172-9179
ISSN (online)	1612-4820
Scope	Geology Palaeontology Stratigraphy