The phrase "author illustrated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a work where the author is also the illustrator, typically in the context of children's books or graphic novels.
Example: "The book was beautifully crafted, as it was both written and author illustrated by the talented artist."
Alternatives: "illustrated by the author" or "author's illustrations".
From a historical and institutional perspective, the author illustrates and analyzes the dynamic relationship between economic regulation and urban politics on a rapidly growing urban island facing various governance challenges.
Using threads from 4chan's /b/ board (an anonymous imageboard known for trolling and other aggressive behaviors) as a case study, the author illustrates how some aggressive behaviors online are memetic; that is, they are uncritical recapitulations of previous behaviors or of the way users believe they are "supposed" to behave.
The article is accentuated by local news reports of criminal trials by which the author illustrates his observations, and bracketed by contrasting descriptions of the South-East Asian airports he arrives and leaves by.
The striking examples given by the author illustrate the strong need to keep (or even start?) discussing the mode of reviewing within scientific communities.
The authors illustrated that MRC at eavesdropper severely degrades the performance compared to SC at eavesdropper.
In [38 40], the authors illustrated their main results with a list of several corollaries by choosing the function α in different ways.
Preliminary experiments, carried out by the authors, illustrated that 38 million fatigue cycles were concurrent with one year of implant of the scaffold within a pulsatile vessel.
The authors illustrated individual subject responses during each supplementation phase (placebo, quercetin) in their publication; however, they did not discuss these results.
These authors illustrated a schematic diagram of the "sucking" of blood into the left ventricle from the left atrium by good relaxation or the "pushing" of blood into the left ventricle by an increased filling pressure in patients with diastolic dysfunction.
Using in vivo patch-clamp recordings, authors illustrated a correlation between locomotion and neural activities at the input stage of cerebellum, i.e. increasing mossy fiber and granule cell activities, and the increased spiking in granule cells is facilitated by glutamate spillover currents.
