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

Gerrish P (2001) The rhythm of microbial adaptation. Nature 413:299–302

A journal article with 2 authors

Saykally RJ, Wales DJ (2012) Chemistry. Pinning down the water hexamer. Science 336:814–815

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee YK, Lee H, Park JY (2014) Tandem-structured, hot electron based photovoltaic cell with double Schottky barriers. Sci Rep 4:4580

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sabari BR, Dall’Agnese A, Boija A, et al (2018) Coactivator condensation at super-enhancers links phase separation and gene control. Science 361:

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jain RK, Triandis HC, Weick CW (2010) Managing Research, Development, and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Alpay D (2016) Slice Hyperholomorphic Schur Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lakon CM, Godette DC, Hipp JR (2008) Network-Based Approaches for Measuring Social Capital. In: Kawachi I, Subramanian SV, Kim D (eds) Social Capital and Health. Springer, New York, NY, pp 63–81

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

Andrew D (2015) What Did Neanderthals Sound Like? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-neanderthals-have-high-pitched-voices/. 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 (2013) Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Identified Ways to Mitigate Data Gaps, but Contingency Plans and Schedules Require Further Attention. 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

Eakman TL (2017) Education Level and Critical Thinking Skills Among Substance Use Counselors Nationwide: A Descriptive Comparative Study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Brantley B (2017) We’re All Doomed. It Says So in the Script. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gerrish 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gerrish 2001; Saykally and Wales 2012).

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

Two authors: (Saykally and Wales 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sabari et al. 2018)

About the journal

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