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

Hapgood M (2012) Astrophysics: Prepare for the coming space weather storm. Nature 484:311–313

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuervo R, Chimal-Monroy J (2013) Chemical activation of RARβ induces post-embryonically bilateral limb duplication during Xenopus limb regeneration. Sci Rep 3:1886

A journal article with 3 authors

Okita K, Ichisaka T, Yamanaka S (2007) Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature 448:313–317

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhu H, Qin X, Sun X, et al (2013) Rocking-chair configuration in ultrathin lithium vanadate-graphene hybrid nanosheets for electrical modulation. Sci Rep 3:1246

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Packard A (2010) Digital Media Law. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Evens AM, Blum KA (eds) (2015) Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Pathology, Imaging, and Current Therapy. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Barkowsky T (2007) Modeling Mental Spatial Knowledge Processing. In: Mast F, Jäncke L (eds) Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 67–84

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 E (2015) Six Lessons From The Initial Failed International Response To Ebola. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/six-lessons-initial-failed-international-response-ebola/. 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 (1977) Safeguarding Taxpayer Information: An Evaluation of the Proposed Computerized Tax Administration System. 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

Whitman S (2012) Operational risk and financial institution leaders’ decision making: A quantitative descriptive correlation study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Kelly C (2013) ‘Cowboy Stuntman’ Was an Olympic Medalist, Too. New York Times A21B

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hapgood 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hapgood 2012; Cuervo and Chimal-Monroy 2013).

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

Two authors: (Cuervo and Chimal-Monroy 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al. 2013)

About the journal

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