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]

Kummel AC. Chemistry. How to assemble a molecular junction. Science 2003;302:69–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Peebles PJE, Nusser A. Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution. Nature 2010;465:565–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pohl MED, Pope KO, von Nagy C. Olmec origins of Mesoamerican writing. Science 2002;298:1984–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen J-B, Gao H-W, Zhang Y-L, Zhang Y, Zhou X-F, Li C-Q, et al. Developmental toxicity of diclofenac and elucidation of gene regulation in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Sci Rep 2014;4:4841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chowdhury D, Stauffer D. Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Bach V, Delle Site L, editors. Many-Electron Approaches in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics: A Multidisciplinary View. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Young RA, Marshall SK, Valach L, Domene JF, Graham MD, Zaidman-Zait A. Relationships. In: Marshall SK, Valach L, Domene JF, Graham MD, Zaidman-Zait A, editors. Transition to Adulthood: Action, Projects, and Counseling, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 51–63.

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]

Luntz S. Interior of Giant Planets Reconstructed By Blasting Diamonds With Lasers. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/interior-giant-planets-reconstructed-blasting-diamonds-lasers/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. NASA: Earned Value Management Implementation across Major Spaceflight Projects Is Uneven. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ray SJ. Departmentalized Classroom Environments Versus Traditional Classroom Environments in Second Through Fourth Grades: A Quantitative Analysis. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood 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]

Leland J. Acting on Broadway, Sleeping on His Couch. New York Times 2017:MB2.

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