title: Scientific writing in the laboratory animal sciences.
abstract: Good communication is important for the dissemination of research results. Here, we summarize the advice that was given to authors at the LA seminar on scientific writing at the FELASA Congress 2016 in Brussels, Belgium on 13-16 June 2016, with the aim of improving the quality of submitted papers and of avoiding common mistakes in scientific reports. See www.felasa2016.eu .
authors.affiliation: 1 Editor-in-Chief, Laboratory Animals, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Platform of Morphology, Lausanne, Switzerland.|2 Centre for Psychiatric Neurosciences, University Hospital of the Canton Waadt (CHUV), Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Beat M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Riederer
authors.affiliation: 3 Deputy Editor, Laboratory Animals, Consulwrite and Consulvet, Pardess Hanna-Karkur, Israel.
authors.forename: Arieh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bomzon
authors.affiliation: 4 Deputy Editor, Laboratory Animals, Division of Surgical Research, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Paulin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jirkof
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007756:Laboratory Animal Science; D014956:Writing
keywords: laboratory animal sciences; reporting guidelines