Is there a clean way to write multiline statements in JavaScript?

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Multiline strings in Javascript

I'm a php developer very new to js. In php I use heredoc a lot for multi-line variable values or print statements. In js, is there any way to easily write these without having to resort to messy code like this:

var animals = 'dog'+
              'cat'+
              'bird'+
etc...