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

Coller HA (2011) Cell biology. The essence of quiescence. Science 334(6059):1074–1075

A journal article with 2 authors

Wan Z, Zhang G (2014) Controlled synthesis and visible light photocatalytic activity of Bi12GeO20 uniform microcrystals. Sci Rep 4:6298

A journal article with 3 authors

Waterhouse PM, Wang MB, Lough T (2001) Gene silencing as an adaptive defence against viruses. Nature 411(6839):834–842

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ding Z, Wu C-J, Chu GC, Xiao Y, Ho D, Zhang J, Perry SR, Labrot ES, Wu X, Lis R, Hoshida Y, Hiller D, Hu B, Jiang S, Zheng H, Stegh AH, Scott KL, Signoretti S, Bardeesy N, Wang YA, Hill DE, Golub TR, Stampfer MJ, Wong WH, Loda M, Mucci L, Chin L, DePinho RA (2011) SMAD4-dependent barrier constrains prostate cancer growth and metastatic progression. Nature 470(7333):269–273

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bill Huitt WM (2016) Bioprocessing Piping and Equipment Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Fritsche-Neto R, Borém A (Eds.) (2015) Phenomics: How Next-Generation Phenotyping is Revolutionizing Plant Breeding. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Li D, Terlaky T (2013) The Duality Between the Perceptron Algorithm and the von Neumann Algorithm. In Zuluaga LF, Terlaky T (eds) Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications: Selected Contributions from the MOPTA 2012 Conference Springer, New York, NY, pp 113–136

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

Andrew E (2015, October 21) It’s Back To The Future Day Today – So What Are The Next Future Predictions? 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 (2008) Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of Systems Acquisition and the Transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manley Lima MC (2014) Commuter Students’ Social Integration: The Relationship Between Involvement in Extracurricular Activities and Sense of Belonging. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC

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 (2002, September 22) On Racy Christopher Street, Anxiety Over a Possible BID. 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, 7, 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