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

Van Noorden R. Production: Beyond sticky tape. Nature 2012; 483:S32-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelley DH, Ouellette NT. Emergent dynamics of laboratory insect swarms. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1073.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blackstone E, Morrison M, Roth MB. H2S induces a suspended animation-like state in mice. Science 2005; 308:518.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Leininger S, Urich T, Schloter M, Schwark L, Qi J, Nicol GW, Prosser JI, Schuster SC, Schleper C. Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils. Nature 2006; 442:806–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowling J. Diagnostic Dermoscopy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Grasser T, Selberherr S, editors. Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices 2007: SISPAD 2007. Vienna: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Różewski P, Bednarz J. Multimodal Perspective on Ontologies Combining Problem in Production Management Systems. In: Omatu S, Bersini H, Corchado JM, Rodríguez S, Pawlewski P, Bucciarelli E, editors. Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 11th International Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. page 39–46.

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

Hale T. Stunning Images Shed Light On Medieval Shipwrecks In The Black Sea [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/stunning-images-shed-light-on-medieval-shipwrecks-in-the-black-sea/

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. Space Station: Cost Control Problems Continue to Worsen. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gomez S. Support group for caregivers coping with their child diagnosed with autism: A grant proposal. 2012;

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

Duerden J. Lifting Soccer in a Nation of Basketball. New York Times2016; :B8.

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