How to format your references using the Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (KSSTA). 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

Dantzer B (2015) Ecology. Mothers shape ecological communities. Science 347(6224):822–823

A journal article with 2 authors

Stegemann S, Bock R (2009) Exchange of genetic material between cells in plant tissue grafts. Science 324(5927):649–651

A journal article with 3 authors

Poon VY, Klassen MP, Shen K (2008) UNC-6/netrin and its receptor UNC-5 locally exclude presynaptic components from dendrites. Nature 455(7213):669–673

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tripp TM, Meiring JD, Prochaska JX, Willmer CNA, Howk JC, Werk JK, Jenkins EB, Bowen DV, Lehner N, Sembach KR, Thom C, Tumlinson J (2011) The hidden mass and large spatial extent of a post-starburst galaxy outflow. Science 334(6058):952–955

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bacon CR (2012) Practical Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Abu el Ata N (2016) The Tyranny of Uncertainty: A New Framework to Predict, Remediate and Monitor Risk. Schmandt R (ed) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Heck RG (2007) Finitude and Hume’s Principle. In Cook RT (ed) The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–84

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 Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy.

Blog post

Rivett J (2017, February 16) Awesome Footage Captures A Comet Breaking Apart. IFLScience

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 (2015) Transportation Safety: Results of Collection of Information on State Permitting Practices for Oversize Vehicles (GAO-15-235SP, February 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-236 [Reissued on February 27, 2015].

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oakes AC (2006) States in Crisis: How Governments Respond to Domestic Unrest. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

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

Greenhouse L (2005, November 2) Supreme Court Could Hear An Alito Case. New York Times

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 5, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
Abbreviation	Knee Surg. Sports Traumatol. Arthrosc.
ISSN (print)	0942-2056
ISSN (online)	1433-7347
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Surgery