  We study the contribution of a heavy right-handed Majorana neutrino to
neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) via four-fermion effective
interactions of Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type. In this physical scenario, the
sterile neutrino contributes to the nuclear transition through gauge, contact,
and mixed interactions. Using the lower limit on the half-life of
$0\nu\beta\beta$ from the KamLAND-Zen experiment, we then constrain the
effective right-handed coupling between the sterile neutrino and the $W$ boson:
$\mathcal{G}^{W}_{R}$. Eventually, we show that the obtained bounds are
compatible with those found in the literature, which highlights the
complementarity of this type of phenomenological study with high-energy
experiments.
