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 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

Ball P (2002) Statistics: the physics of society. Nature 415(6870):371

A journal article with 2 authors

Weston CR, Davis RJ (2001) Signal transduction: signaling specificity- a complex affair. Science 292(5526):2439–2440

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu B, Chen J, Singer RH (2014) Background free imaging of single mRNAs in live cells using split fluorescent proteins. Sci Rep 4:3615

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu W-K, Liu X-F, Yao X-R, Wang C, Zhai Y, Zhai G-J (2014) Complementary compressive imaging for the telescopic system. Sci Rep 4:5834

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews GA (2015) Pesticides. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ibrahim F, Usman J, Mohktar MS, Ahmad MY (Eds.) (2016) International Conference for Innovation in Biomedical Engineering and Life Sciences: ICIBEL2015, 6-8 December 2015, Putrajaya, Malaysia. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Cvijikj IP, Michahelles F (2011) The Toolkit Approach for End-user Participation in the Internet of Things. In Uckelmann D, Harrison M, Michahelles F (eds) Architecting the Internet of Things Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 65–96

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

O`Callaghan J (2016, September 13) Blue Origin Reveals New Glenn Rocket That Will Take Humans Into Orbit. 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 (1986) ADP Acquisitions: Patent Automation Encountering Major Planning and Procurement Problems.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alai NL (2017) Development of a Sport-Specific Curriculum Addressing Selfefficacy to Optimize Carbohydrate and Calorie Intake Among Male and Female High School Cross-Country Runners. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Wagner J (2017, June 30) With Colon Free and Pitchers Hurt, Mets’ Future Could Lie in Their Past. 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, 4, 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