What does a Lab Animal reference list entry look like?

A journal article formatted in Lab Animal looks like this: 1. Rivera, M. & Chen, D. The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 12, 145–162 (2021).

How can I generate a Lab Animal citation?

Use the free generator on this page: paste a DOI, URL (e.g. a news article), or BibTeX, or search for a book by title or author. Select Lab Animal as the citation style and click Generate to get a formatted reference you can copy into your paper or bibliography.

Lab Animal Citation Generator

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Lab Animal citation examples

The same three sources formatted in Lab Animal — a numeric style: sources are numbered in the order they are first cited, and in-text citations use those numbers:

Journal article: 1. Rivera, M. & Chen, D. The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 12, 145–162 (2021).
Book: 2. Okafor, A. The Craft of Research Writing. (University Press, Cambridge, 2019).
Website: 3. Larsen, S. How peer review works. Open Science Digest https://www.example.org/peer-review (2023).
In-text citation (for the journal article): 1

About Lab Animal

Citation style for Lab Animal. From the Citation Style Language repository.

When to use Lab Animal: When submitting to or citing in publications that use the Lab Animal style. Common in: International.

Subject areas: biology and medicine.

Formatting rules: Lab Animal follows the formatting of Nature, the parent style it is based on.

How to use this Lab Animal generator

Paste a DOI, a URL to a news article or webpage, or raw BibTeX into the box above. You can also search for a book by title or author and cite it by ISBN. Choose "Lab Animal" in the style dropdown (it's pre-selected on this page), then click "Generate citation." Copy the result into your reference list or bibliography. You can edit the generated entry (e.g. fix a title or add a date) before copying.

Frequently asked questions about Lab Animal

What is Lab Animal?: Citation style for Lab Animal. From the Citation Style Language repository.
When should I use Lab Animal?: When submitting to or citing in publications that use the Lab Animal style.
What does an in-text citation look like in Lab Animal?: Lab Animal is a numeric style: sources are numbered in the order they are first cited, and in-text citations use those numbers. Citing our sample journal article in the text looks like: 1
What does a Lab Animal reference list entry look like?: A journal article formatted in Lab Animal looks like this: 1. Rivera, M. & Chen, D. The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 12, 145–162 (2021).
How can I generate a Lab Animal citation?: Use the free generator on this page: paste a DOI, URL (e.g. a news article), or BibTeX, or search for a book by title or author. Select Lab Animal as the citation style and click Generate to get a formatted reference you can copy into your paper or bibliography.

CitationEasy supports many citation styles from around the world. Our generator uses Citation Style Language (CSL) styles from the official CSL repository.