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

Tanner, K. E. Materials science. Small but extremely tough. Science 336, 1237–1238 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Finney, L. A. & O’Halloran, T. V. Transition metal speciation in the cell: insights from the chemistry of metal ion receptors. Science 300, 931–936 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, T. M., Karl, T. R. & Reynolds, R. W. Climate modeling. How accurate are climate simulations? Science 296, 483–484 (2002).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Kornmann, B. et al. An ER-mitochondria tethering complex revealed by a synthetic biology screen. Science 325, 477–481 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. Energy Materials 2014. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014).

An edited book

Brachytherapy: An International Perspective. (Springer International Publishing, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Sprent, J. I. Biological Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Angiosperms in Terrestrial Ecosystems. in Nutrient Acquisition by Plants: An Ecological Perspective (ed. BassiriRad, H.) 89–116 (Springer, 2005).

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

Davis, J. Human Medicine And Agricultural Chemicals Found In The Blood Of Turtles. IFLScience (2017).

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. The Rise of Political Science. (1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pierce, Z. D. The relationship between nursing instructors’ transformational leadership behaviors in the clinical learning environment and associate degree nursing students’ communication apprehension. (Capella University, 2016).

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

Gorman, J. Naked Mole Rats Survive Without Oxygen. New York Times D3 (2017).

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