Lab Animal is a forum for the publication of articles on all aspects of laboratory animal science, including animal care and husbandry; disease diagnosis and treatment; facility planning, design, and management; staff training and education; and updates and information on regulations. This monthly publication provides timely, practical information to a broad audience of laboratory animal care and use professionals in both academia and industry. Manuscripts should be written in a clear and accessible fashion so that individuals from a broad variety of sectors of the laboratory animal science community will be able to appreciate their significance. Manuscripts are selected for publication according to editorial assessment of their general interest and suitability as well as reports from independent referees. Contributors are welcome to suggest potential reviewers and to inform the Editor of potential conflicts of interest in this regard.

Abbreviation: The correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing purposes is Lab Anim. (NY).

ISSN and EISSN: The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Lab Animal is 0093-7375, and the electronic international standard serial number (EISSN) is 1548-4475.

Lab Animal Manuscripts should generally range between 2,500 and 4,500 words. All manuscripts are subject to editing for Lab Animal style, and may be edited for clarity and length. All Reviews, Resources, Techniques, and Research Notes are subject to peer review by at least two members of the Lab Animal editorial board or other appropriately qualified professionals. The Editors reserve the right to decide whether Opinions require full peer review. Product Focus articles are submitted to featured companies for review.

Reviewers may accept manuscripts contingent on specified revisions, in which case comments will be returned to authors for consideration. The revised manuscript should be submitted via email.

Review articles should be thorough and provide a representative review of the available literature. While they will often have a historical basis, ideally they should ask and answer a question, and/or discuss future direction. Topic examples might include: "Animal Use Alternatives in Research and Testing" or "The History and Theory of Transgenic Animals."

Resource articles contain less formal, often anecdotal, but always novel and practical information reviewing a method, process, program, or solution with which the author is intimately familiar; e.g., "A Computerized Method for Taking Animal Census," "Medetomidine and Atipamezole: Potential Uses in Lab Animals."

Technique articles should offer practical technical advice, primarily related to animal care, husbandry, or procedures; photographs and/or illustrations are particularly useful. Examples might include: "Endotracheal Intubation in the Rabbit: A Quick Reliable Method" or "A New Rabbit Handling and Restraint Technique."

Opinion articles are accepted on the basis of current relevance and interest to the Lab Animal readership. When possible, the Editors will commission an opposing viewpoint to showcase, with equal editorial weight, the opposing position. Opinion pieces do not represent the viewpoints of the Editorial staff.

Research Notes aprovide descriptions of specific findings, in standard scientific format (i.e., Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion). Examples might include: "An Analysis of ISO Intracutaneous Reactivity Test Results to Justify a Reduction in Animal Requirements" or "Response to Novel Objects and Foraging Tasks by Common Marmoset Female Pairs"

Product Focus articles review available technologies and commercial vendors of products relevant to the lab animal field. Product Focus articles, or any manuscript that describes the application of commercially available products, systems, or processes, should consider with equal editorial weight the products of all other relevant manufacturers.

Product Profiles allow product manufacturers to present interesting new products or innovative applications of a laboratory technology. Product Profiles are not peer reviewed and are marked as an advertisement. Product Profiles are published at the editors' discretion. Product manufacturers interested in contributing a Product Profile should contact the Lab Animal National Sales Manager at 617-494-4900, ext. 221.

What's Your Diagnosis? case studies should be sent to the Lab Animal Editorial office, to the attention of the Column Editor. Lab Animal welcomes reader contributions in its signature case history/diagnosis format (please refer to a recent issue). Selections are made on the basis of relevance and interest to readers.

Protocol Review responses are solicited by the Column Coordinator. If you are interested in participating, please notify the Lab Animal Editorial office.

Please do not include headers, footers, or footnotes in electronic documents. References should be indicated numerically throughout the document, and full citations should be listed numerically at the end of the manuscript. Please refer to a recent issue for bibliographic style. Figure captions should appear in full at the end of the manuscript.

When possible, we prefer to use original digital figures to ensure the highest quality reproduction in the journal. When creating and submitting digital files, please follow the guidelines below.

Formats: For publication, we can only use TIFF, EPS or postscript (ps) files in PC or Macintosh format, preferably from PhotoShop or Illustrator software. We cannot accept Freehand, Canvas, PowerPoint, CorelDRAW or MacDrawPro files. These files must be converted to postscript (ps) format.

Resolution and figure quality: Figure files must be supplied at an appropriate resolution for print publication:

• Color, 300 d.p.i. minimum, please convert all color files into CMYK mode
• Grayscale, 600 d.p.i. minimum for black & white photographs
• Line art, 1200 d.p.i. minimum for graphs and illustrations

Figures that do not meet these standards will not reproduce well and may delay publication until we receive high-resolution images or high-quality printouts. If digital figures are not available, high-resolution photographs or high-quality printouts can be mailed to Lab Animal for scanning.

Tables:Please submit tables in Word format at the end of your text document.

Covers and other artwork:Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to submit images for consideration as a cover. Cover images are normally linked to a specific paper in the issue or to the general focus of the issue, but we may also be able to use other images elsewhere in the journal, such as on the table of contents.

Please submit your manuscript and digital figures via email to editors@labanimal.com.