How to format your references using the Journal of Laboratory Automation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Laboratory Automation (JALA). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Subrahmanian, V. S. Computer Science. Cultural Modeling in Real Time. Science 2007, 317, 1509–1510.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enemark, E. J.; Joshua-Tor, L. Mechanism of DNA Translocation in a Replicative Hexameric Helicase. Nature 2006, 442, 270–275.

A journal article with 3 authors

García-Ruiz, J. M.; Melero-García, E.; Hyde, S. T. Morphogenesis of Self-Assembled Nanocrystalline Materials of Barium Carbonate and Silica. Science 2009, 323, 362–365.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bermudez, V., V.; Capron, N.; Gase, T.; et al. Influencing Intramolecular Motion with an Alternating Electric Field. Nature 2000, 406, 608–611.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Werner, M. Global Displacements; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

Rethinking Energy Security in Asia: A Non-Traditional View of Human Security; Caballero-Anthony, M.; Chang, Y.; Putra, N. A., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 2.

A chapter in an edited book

Cassidy, M. J.; Daganzo, C. F.; Jang, K.; et al. Spatiotemporal Effects of Segregating Different Vehicle Classes on Separate Lanes. In Transportation and Traffic Theory 2009: Golden Jubilee: Papers selected for presentation at ISTTT18, a peer reviewed series since 1959; Lam, W. H. K.; Wong, S. C.; Lo, H. K., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2009; pp. 57–74.

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 Journal of Laboratory Automation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Fat And Sugar-Heavy Diet Harms Your Brain – And Makes You Keep On Eating https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fat-and-sugar-heavy-diet-harms-your-brain-and-makes-you-keep-eating/ (accessed Oct 30, 2018).

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. Joint Strike Fighter: DOD Plans to Enter Production before Testing Demonstrates Acceptable Performance; GAO-06-356; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ganatra, V. A. Impact of the Media on Body Image and Eating Disorders. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Wagner, J. Mets Find Trip to Series Has Cost in Pitching Staff. New York Times, 2016, B9.

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	Journal of Laboratory Automation
ISSN (print)	2211-0682
ISSN (online)	1540-2452
Scope