Backpropagation is literally the reverse mode AD applied to neural nets. That said, I wish had a paper that I could point to that shows explicitly that. From

Backpropagation is literally the reverse mode AD applied to neural nets. That said, I wish had a paper that I could point to that shows explicitly that. From what I can tell, the AD community has known this basically since the start, but for whatever reason backpropogation is taught rather than the more general technique.