How to format your references using the Lab Animal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lab Animal. 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

Seaford, C. Policy: time to legislate for the good life. Nature 477, 532–533 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Florence, T. J. & Reiser, M. B. Neuroscience: hot on the trail of temperature processing. Nature 519, 296–297 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

Theise, N. D., Krause, D. S. & Sharkis, S. Comment on ‘Little evidence for developmental plasticity of adult hematopoietic stem cells’. Science 299, 1317; author reply 1317 (2003).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Lee, D. M. et al. Mast cells: a cellular link between autoantibodies and inflammatory arthritis. Science 297, 1689–1692 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cornier, J., Owen, A., Kwade, A. & Van de Voorde, M. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production. (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2017).

An edited book

Oemig, F. Healthcare Interoperability Standards Compliance Handbook: Conformance and Testing of Healthcare Data Exchange Standards. (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Howard, M. You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers. in Scientific Literacy Under the Microscope: A Whole School Approach to Science Teaching and Learning (eds. Loughran, J., Smith, K. & Berry, A.) 47–57 (SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2011).

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 Lab Animal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Some Creatures Use Electricity And Vibrations In Sex (And This Can Be Dangerous). 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

Government Accountability Office. Higher Education: Institutions’ Reported Data Collection Burden Is Higher Than Estimated but Can Be Reduced through Increased Coordination. (2010).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Castro Deller, E. Recognizing signs of dementia: A curriculum for child welfare workers. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013).

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

Crow, K. Veggies vs. a Courthouse: Worries and Reassurance. New York Times 149 (2000).

In-text citations

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

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	Lab Animal
Abbreviation	Lab Anim. (NY)
ISSN (print)	0093-7355
ISSN (online)	1548-4475
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Veterinary