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 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

Singleton, A. B. Genetics. A unified process for neurological disease. Science 343, 497–498 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Rehwinkel, J. & Reis e Sousa, C. RIGorous detection: exposing virus through RNA sensing. Science 327, 284–286 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

Aharonian, F. A., Bogovalov, S. V. & Khangulyan, D. Abrupt acceleration of a ‘cold’ ultrarelativistic wind from the Crab pulsar. Nature 482, 507–509 (2012).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Huang, J. Y. et al. Superplastic carbon nanotubes. Nature 439, 281 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berk, J. Cost Reduction and Optimization for Manufacturing and Industrial Companies. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010).

An edited book

JIMD Reports, Volume 24. vol. 24 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Privat, M. & Warner, R. Working with Data Objects. in Pro Core Data for iOS: Data Access and Persistence Engine for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (ed. Warner, R.) 129–180 (Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2011).

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

Fang, J. Ancient Humans Had A Lot More DNA Than We Do. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancestral-human-genome-contained-lot-more-dna-ours/ (2015).

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. IRS Operations: Significant Challenges in Financial Management and Systems Modernization. (1996).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lincoln, J. J. Creating a lesson that addresses gender differences in physics testing a specific instructional technique in college level physics education. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010).

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

Walsh, M. W. MetLife Will Repatriate an Offshore Reinsurance Unit to Mollify Regulators. New York Times B4 (2013).

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