How to format your references using the KONTAKT citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for KONTAKT. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Morken JP. Organic chemistry: Catalysis marches on. Nature 2014;508:324–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kimmel AR, Parent CA. The signal to move: D. discoideum go orienteering. Science 2003;300:1525–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jouvenet N, Bieniasz PD, Simon SM. Imaging the biogenesis of individual HIV-1 virions in live cells. Nature 2008;454:236–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wardemann H, Yurasov S, Schaefer A, Young JW, Meffre E, Nussenzweig MC. Predominant autoantibody production by early human B cell precursors. Science 2003;301:1374–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Weinstein S. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Sghirlanzoni A, Lauria G, Chiapparini L, editors. Prognosis of Neurological Diseases. 1st ed. 2015. Milano: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shang H, Cao G. Template-Based Synthesis of Nanorod or Nanowire Arrays. In: Bhushan B, editor. Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 161–78.

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 KONTAKT.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Lab Experiment Accidentally Gave Students Caffeine Dose Equal To 300 Coffees. IFLScience 2017.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Space Shuttle Facility Program: More Definitive Cost Information Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Echols KI. Authentic Leadership, Research Integrity, and Institutions of Higher Learning: Why Focusing on Departmental Leadership is Critical for Preserving the Sanctity of Science. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2017.

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

[1]

Kelly M. After Waco’s Inferno, an Inquisition That Insists on Rational Answers. New York Times 1993:43.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	KONTAKT
Abbreviation	Kontakt
ISSN (print)	1212-4117
Scope	Philosophy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health General Nursing