How to format your references using the Autophagy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Autophagy. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Feldman DE. Physics. Electronically erased. Science 2014; 344:1344–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rubin AF, Green P. Comment on “The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers.” Science 2007; 317:1500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen M, Wei L, Liu Y. Motor preparation attenuates neural variability and beta-band LFP in parietal cortex. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6809.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Navarre WW, Porwollik S, Wang Y, McClelland M, Rosen H, Libby SJ, Fang FC. Selective silencing of foreign DNA with low GC content by the H-NS protein in Salmonella. Science 2006; 313:236–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bates J, Gallon C, Bocci M, Walker S, Taylor T. Converged Multimedia Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Korolev GV. Three-Dimensional Free-Radical Polymerization: Cross-Linked and Hyper-Branched Polymers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Marcon C, Mancin M. Empirical Evidence on Current Integrated Reporting Practices. In: Mio C, editor. Integrated Reporting: A New Accounting Disclosure. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. page 59–79.

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 Autophagy.

Blog post

Luntz S. Droppings Reveal That Not All Tasmanian Devils Are Clones [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/not-devil-we-know-droppings-reveal-tasmanian-devil-diversity/

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. ADP System: Patent Office’s Contract Renegotiation Behind Schedule. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams RN. Inclusive Classrooms: A Basic Qualitative Study of K-8 Urban Charter School Teachers. 2017;

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

Vecsey G. U.S. Shares the Blame for Feeling Cheated. New York Times2010; :D2.

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	Autophagy
Abbreviation	Autophagy
ISSN (print)	1554-8627
ISSN (online)	1554-8635
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology