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

Manabe T. Does BDNF have pre- or postsynaptic targets? Science 2002; 295:1651–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rehren T, Pusch EB. Late Bronze Age glass production at Qantir-Piramesses, Egypt. Science 2005; 308:1756–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Popovych OV, Yanchuk S, Tass PA. Self-organized noise resistance of oscillatory neural networks with spike timing-dependent plasticity. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2926.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kawamoto A, Morimoto YV, Miyata T, Minamino T, Hughes KT, Kato T, Namba K. Common and distinct structural features of Salmonella injectisome and flagellar basal body. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3369.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joglekar AM. Industrial Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Wang JG. Financing without Bank Loans: New Alternatives for Funding SMEs in China. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrari A. Perceptive Defects. In: Cioni G, editor. The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy: A Guide to the Assessment of Adaptive Functions. Milano: Springer; 2010. page 73–98.

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

Hamilton K. Safe And Ethical Ways To Edit The Human Genome [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/safe-and-ethical-ways-to-edit-the-human-genome/

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. Earth Observing System: Cost and Research Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Byrne SM. Metabolic and pathological role of retinyl esters: The role of lecithin:retinol acyl transferase, (LRAT). 2008;

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

Kishkovsky S. Dmitri Dudko, 82, Foe of Stalin Who Recanted and Praised Him. New York Times2004; :C14.

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