How to format your references using the KONA Powder and Particle Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for KONA Powder and Particle Journal. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Buchen L., Snapshot: The guts of a dying star, Nature, 460 (2009) 671.
A journal article with 2 authors
Larsen P.L., Clarke C.F., Extension of life-span in Caenorhabditis elegans by a diet lacking coenzyme Q, Science (New York, N.Y.), 295 (2002) 120–123.
A journal article with 3 authors
Rogers J.A., Someya T., Huang Y., Materials and mechanics for stretchable electronics, Science (New York, N.Y.), 327 (2010) 1603–1607.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Igakura T., Stinchcombe J.C., Goon P.K.C., Taylor G.P., Weber J.N., Griffiths G.M., Tanaka Y., Osame M., Bangham C.R.M., Spread of HTLV-I between lymphocytes by virus-induced polarization of the cytoskeleton, Science (New York, N.Y.), 299 (2003) 1713–1716.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Russell C., Trustee Investment Strategy for Endowments and Foundations, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2006.
An edited book
Duncan I.D., Franklin R.J.M., Eds., Myelin Repair and Neuroprotection in Multiple Sclerosis, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2013.
A chapter in an edited book
Chou B.-H., Suzuki E., Discovering Community-Oriented Roles of Nodes in a Social Network, in: Bach Pedersen T., Mohania M.K., Tjoa A.M. (Eds.), Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery: 12th International Conference, DAWAK 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August/September 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, pp.52–64.

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 KONA Powder and Particle Journal.

Blog post
Andrew E., 2015, Electric Motorways Could Charge Electric Cars On The Go <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/england-test-electric-motorways-charge-electric-cars/> accessed 30.10.2018, 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, Career and Technical Education: Surveys to State Directors of Career and Technical Education (GAO-09-737SP, July 2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-683 (No. GAO-09-737SP), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Shroff N., Efficient sensing, summarization and classification of videos (Doctoral dissertation), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2012.

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
Crow K., For N.Y.U.’s Senior Revels, Is Quieter Quiet Enough?, New York Times, (2003) 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buchen, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Buchen, 2009; Larsen and Clarke, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Larsen and Clarke, 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Igakura et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal titleKONA Powder and Particle Journal
ISSN (print)0288-4534
ISSN (online)2187-5537
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