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

Gifford DK. 2001. Blazing pathways through genetic mountains. Science 293:2049–2051.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moreno NP, Erdmann DB. 2010. SPORE: Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. Addressing science teacher needs. Science 327:1589–1590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sánchez I, Mahlke C, Yuan J. 2003. Pivotal role of oligomerization in expanded polyglutamine neurodegenerative disorders. Nature 421:373–379.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rasmussen S, Chen L, Deamer D, Krakauer DC, Packard NH, Stadler PF, Bedau MA. 2004. Evolution. Transitions from nonliving to living matter. Science 303:963–965.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell AK. 2014. Intracellular Calcium. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schumann AH, editor. 2011. Flood Risk Assessment and Management: How to Specify Hydrological Loads, Their Consequences and Uncertainties. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun F, Gobbel G, Li W, Chen J. 2007. Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Damage and Repair in Ischemic Neuronal Injury, p 65–87. In: Lajtha A, Chan PH, editors. Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Acute Ischemic Injury and Repair in the Nervous System. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Fang J. 2014. Rare Beaked Whale Washes Up in Australia. 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. 1993. Electronic Signature Prototype System. 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

Landry C. 2017. A Phenomenological Investigation of the Factors that Influence Motivation, Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers Age 65 and Over, Doctoral dissertation. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Hubbard B. 2017. Saudi Prince Rejects Talks With Iran. New York Times :A9.

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 ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,7,8.

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