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

Butlin R. 2006. Comment on “Transitions to asexuality result in excess amino acid substitutions.” Science 313:1389; author reply 1389.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson CM, Beard BL. 2005. Geochemistry. Biogeochemical cycling of iron isotopes. Science 309:1025–1027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verbeeck J, Tian H, Schattschneider P. 2010. Production and application of electron vortex beams. Nature 467:301–304.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Gasque G, Conway S, Huang J, Rao Y, Vosshall LB. 2013. Small molecule drug screening in Drosophila identifies the 5HT2A receptor as a feeding modulation target. Sci Rep 3:srep02120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klöpffer W. 2012. Verhalten und Abbau von Umweltchemikalien. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Fan L, Cruickshank H, Sun Z, editors. 2008. IP Networking over Next-Generation Satellite Systems: International Workshop, Budapest, July 2007. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hartlep ND, Scott DP. 2016. Middle School, p 55–68. In: Scott DP, editor. Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide: From Being Excluded to Becoming a Model Minority. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Desert Farms Could Power Flight With Sunshine And Seawater. 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. 1980. Improving Social Security Administration Procedures for Acquiring ADP and Telecommunications Resources. 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

Sanabria A. 2012. Root Metaphor, Doctoral dissertation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Kishkovsky S. 2000. Submarine’s Namesake City Hurts As Minute After Minute Ticks Away. New York Times :A8.

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 ^2,5,7,8.

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