How to format your references using the Laboratory Animal Science Professional citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Laboratory Animal Science Professional (LAS). 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

1. Stanley GD Jr. 2006. Ecology. Photosymbiosis and the evolution of modern coral reefs. Science 312(5775): 857–858.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ha S-J, Moon JH. 2014. In-situ fabrication of macroporous films for dye-sensitised solar cells: formation of the scattering layer and the gelation of electrolytes. Sci Rep 4: 5375.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Laliberté E, Zemunik G, Turner BL. 2014. Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients. Science 345(6204): 1602–1605.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

1. Zioutas K, Hoffmann DHH, Dennerl K, Papaevangelou T. 2004. Physics. What is dark matter made of? Science 306(5701): 1485–1488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hannon L, Clift J. 2010. General Hospital Care for People with Learning Disabilities. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

1. Ozok AA, Zaphiris P, editors. 2011. Online Communities and Social Computing: 4th International Conference, OCSC 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nguyen DC, Perini A, Tonella P. 2008. A Goal-Oriented Software Testing Methodology, p 58–72. In: Luck M, Padgham L, editors. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII: 8th International Workshop, AOSE 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Laboratory Animal Science Professional.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. [Internet]. 2015. Our Predictions Of Solar Storms Have Not Been Very Accurate Until Now – Here’s Why. IFLScience. [Cited 30 October 2018]. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-predictions-solar-storms-have-not-been-very-accurate-until-now-here-s-why/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. 1981. Federal Agencies’ Maintenance of Computer Programs: Expensive and Undermanaged. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Report No.: AFMD-81-25.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Liang Y. 2005. Studies of E. coli YidC and Other Factors for Membrane Protein Insertion [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

1. Higgins A. 2016. In Measured Speech, Putin Calls for ‘Mutually Beneficial’ Ties With U.S. New York Times: A4.

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 ^3,4.
This sentence cites four references ^3,5,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Laboratory Animal Science Professional
ISSN (print)	2331-7175
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