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

Cohen J (2000) EDUCATION: Gates Gives Cambridge a Rival to Rhodes. Science 290(5491):422a

A journal article with 2 authors

Solé R, Macía J (2014) Synthetic biology: Biocircuits in synchrony. Nature 508(7496):326–327

A journal article with 3 authors

Parry M, Lowe J, Hanson C (2009) Overshoot, adapt and recover. Nature 458(7242):1102–1103

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shon JW, Ohta J, Ueno K, Kobayashi A, Fujioka H (2014) Fabrication of full-color InGaN-based light-emitting diodes on amorphous substrates by pulsed sputtering. Sci Rep 4:5325

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Retherford RD, Choe MK (1993) Statistical Models for Causal Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jalongo MR (2016) Making Effective Presentations at Professional Conferences: A Guide for Teachers, Graduate Students and Professors. Machado C (ed) Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Higgott R (2012) Economic Multilateralism: A Search for Legitimacy and Coherence in the Early Twenty-first Century. In Telò M (ed) State, Globalization and Multilateralism: The challenges of institutionalizing regionalism Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–78

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

Davis J (2015, May 11) Liberia Officially Declared Ebola Free. 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 (1977) The Impact Aid Program.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berezin S (2009) Catechols as membrane anion transporters. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

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

Slotnik DE (2016, August 24) Joyce Carol Thomas, 78, Novelist and Poet. 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, 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

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