How to format your references using the Journal of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science (JAALAS). 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

Nelson MR. 2009. Computer science. Building an open Cloud. Science 324:1656–1657.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bergquist BA, Blum JD. 2007. Mass-dependent and -independent fractionation of hg isotopes by photoreduction in aquatic systems. Science 318:417–420.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wojtak R, Hansen SH, Hjorth J. 2011. Gravitational redshift of galaxies in clusters as predicted by general relativity. Nature 477:567–569.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nanbo A, Watanabe S, Halfmann P, Kawaoka Y. 2013. The spatio-temporal distribution dynamics of Ebola virus proteins and RNA in infected cells. Sci Rep 3:1206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plumb JA, Hanson LA. 2010. Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Friedman M, Mottram D, editors. 2005. Chemistry and Safety of Acrylamide in Food. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Tan M. 2015. Applying Disciplinary Intuitions to Classroom Contexts: A Constructivist Perspective, p 41–52. In: Lim KYT, editor. Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environments. Singapore: Springer.

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 Journal of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2016. Vast Oceanic Ridge Captures Southern Ocean’s Sediment. 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. 2005. Telecommunications: Market Developments in the Global Satellite Services Industry and the Implementation of the ORBIT Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rich DW. 2009. Examining the relationship of values-based management in performance evaluations, Doctoral dissertation. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University.

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

Hollander S. 2009. Where’s Chinatown? That’s a Touchy Subject. New York Times :CY6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^3,4.
This sentence cites four references ^3,5,7,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science
Abbreviation	J. Am. Assoc. Lab. Anim. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1559-6109
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology