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]

Bakker K. Water management. Water security: research challenges and opportunities. Science 2012;337:914–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gagliardi L, Roos BO. Quantum chemical calculations show that the uranium molecule U2 has a quintuple bond. Nature 2005;433:848–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Watts DJ, Dodds PS, Newman MEJ. Identity and search in social networks. Science 2002;296:1302–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yuki K, Yoshida Y, Inagaki R, Hiai H, Noda M. E-cadherin-downregulation and RECK-upregulation are coupled in the non-malignant epithelial cell line MCF10A but not in multiple carcinoma-derived cell lines. Sci Rep 2014;4:4568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Murray A. The Complete Software Project Manager. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Carey WM. Ocean Ambient Noise: Measurement and Theory. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ashour-Abdalla M. A Simulation Study of the Relationship Between Tail Dynamics and the Aurora. In: Cowley FRS SWH, Southwood D, Mitton S, editors. Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey’s Research, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 109–27.

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]

Andrew E. Revealed: Why Your Pinot Noir Is Actually A Pinot Blanc (Or Was That A Pinot Gris?). IFLScience 2015.

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. Selected Information on Bypass of Local Telephone Companies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

ELBoushi TC. Evaluating ethics training and the outcome on leadership decision making: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2010.

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]

Hollander S. Taking Life to the Edge, And Spins and Jumps, Too. New York Times 2002:D2.

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

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