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

Sovacool, B. K. Diversity: Energy studies need social science. Nature 511, 529–530 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Yacubova, E. & Komuro, H. Stage-specific control of neuronal migration by somatostatin. Nature 415, 77–81 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooks, C. L., 3rd, Onuchic, J. N. & Wales, D. J. Statistical thermodynamics. Taking a walk on a landscape. Science 293, 612–613 (2001).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Wild, E. M. et al. Direct dating of Early Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Mladec. Nature 435, 332–335 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knuth, E. Trading Between the Lines. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011).

An edited book

Personalising Learning in Open-Plan Schools. (SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Quirk, T. J., Quirk, M. & Horton, H. Two-Group t-Test of the Difference of the Means for Independent Groups. in Excel 2010 for Biological and Life Sciences Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems (eds. Quirk, M. & Horton, H.) 83–108 (Springer, New York, NY, 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

Davis, J. Scotland Generated More Wind Power Than It Used For An Entire Day. IFLScience (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. Space Transportation: The Content and Uses of Shuttle Cost Estimates. (1993).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee, S. B. Localizing the effects of link flooding attacks in the Internet. (University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2009).

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

Lyman, R. & Walsh, M. W. Task Force Report Urges Municipalities to Stop Hiding Fiscal Troubles. New York Times A14 (2014).

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