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

Macilwain C. Emissions targets “unrealistic” says US climate change body. Nature 2000; 406:333–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Song G, Zhang W. First-principles study on the phase diagram and multiferroic properties of (SrCoO3)1/(SrTiO3)1 superlattices. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4564.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shim SH, Duffy TS, Shen G. Stability and structure of MgSiO3 perovskite to 2300-kilometer depth in Earth’s mantle. Science 2001; 293:2437–40.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mouquet H, Scheid JF, Zoller MJ, Krogsgaard M, Ott RG, Shukair S, Artyomov MN, Pietzsch J, Connors M, Pereyra F, et al. Polyreactivity increases the apparent affinity of anti-HIV antibodies by heteroligation. Nature 2010; 467:591–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai Q, Bai Y, Ruan W. Advances in Pipes and Pipelines. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Ranchordas A, Pereira JM, Araújo HJ, Tavares JMRS, editors. Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications: International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, February 5-8, 2009. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H. Meta-Net. In: Rehm G, Uszkoreit H, editors. The Finnish Language in the Digital Age. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 35–35.

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

Andrew E. Why Indonesia Can’t Stamp Out Fires That Have Cast A Haze Over South-East Asia [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-indonesia-can-t-stamp-out-fires-have-cast-haze-over-south-east-asia/

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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Progress Continues to Be Made in Establishing Corporate Management Controls, but Further Steps Are Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller T. A qualitative phenomenological study: Hiring nurses re-entering the workforce after chemical dependence. 2014;

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

Feeney K. No Frills, Just Sweet Treats. New York Times2011; :NJ9.

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

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