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

Seiradakis, J. H. Pulsar astronomy. Older than they look. Nature 406, 139–140 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Lankau, R. A. & Strauss, S. Y. Mutual feedbacks maintain both genetic and species diversity in a plant community. Science 317, 1561–1563 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Karakas, E., Simorowski, N. & Furukawa, H. Subunit arrangement and phenylethanolamine binding in GluN1/GluN2B NMDA receptors. Nature 475, 249–253 (2011).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Varoon, K. et al. Dispersible exfoliated zeolite nanosheets and their application as a selective membrane. Science 334, 72–75 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smaini, L. RF Analog Impairments Modeling for Communication Systems Simulation. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012).

An edited book

Computational Intelligence: Revised and Selected Papers of the International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2011, Paris, France, October 24-26, 2011. vol. 465 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Hayman, P. & McCarthy, M. Irrigation and Drought in a Southern Australian Climate that is Arid, Variable, and Changing. in Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective (eds. Schwabe, K., Albiac, J., Connor, J. D., Hassan, R. M. & Meza González, L.) 81–99 (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013).

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

O`Callaghan, J. Chinese Astronaut Says He Heard A Strange Knocking Sound While In Space. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/chinese-astronaut-strange-knocking-sound-in-space/ (2016).

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. Bureau of Indian Affairs Not Operating Boarding Schools Efficiently. (1978).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Solano, E. A. Hindemith’s Sonata for Viola, ope 11, no.4 A compositional and historical perspective. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012).

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

Barboza, D. Chinese Group Reveals Shift Of Ownership To Foundation. New York Times B1 (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