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1. Journal article:

Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med965:325–329

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Saunders DS (1976) The biological clock of insects. Sci Am 234(2):114–121

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Smith J (ed) (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6):126–233

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Mod Genomics J (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6):126–233

5. Book chapter:

Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics,3rd edn. Wiley, New York

6. Book, authored:

South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

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Smith J, Brown B (eds) (2001) The demise of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

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Schmidt H (1989) Testing results. In: Hutzinger O (ed) Handbook of environmental chemistry,vol 2E. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, p 111

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Smith SE (1976) Neuromuscular blocking drugs in man. In: Zaimis E (ed) Neuromuscularjunction. Handbook of experimental pharmacology, vol 42. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg NewYork, pp593–660

10. Proceedings as a book (in a series and subseries):

Zowghi D et al (1996) A framework for reasoning about requirements in evolution. In: Foo N,Goebel R (eds) PRICAI'96: topics in artificial intelligence. 4th Pacific Rim conference onartificial intelligence, Cairns, August 1996. Lecture notes in computer science (Lecture notes inartificial intelligence), vol 1114. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, p 157

11. Proceedings with an editor (without a publisher):

Aaron M (1999) The future of genomics. In: Williams H (ed) Proceedings of the genomicresearchers, Boston, 1999

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Chung S­T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acidfrom Streptomyces fradiae. In: Abstracts of the 3rd international symposium on the genetics ofindustrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 4–9 June 1978

13. Paper presented at a conference:

Chung S­T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acidfrom Streptomyces fradiae. Paper presented at the 3rd international symposium on the

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genetics of industrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 4–9 June 1978

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Norman LO (1998) Lightning rods. US Patent 4,379,752, 9 Sept 1998

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Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

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International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee (1966) Nomina anatomica. ExcerptaMedica, Amsterdam

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Wolf GH, Lehman P­F (1976) Atlas der Anatomie, vol 4/3, 4th edn. Fischer, Berlin. [NB: Use thelanguage of the primary document, not that of the reference for "vol" etc.!]

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Marikhin VY, Myasnikova LP (1977) Nadmolekulyarnaya struktura polimerov (Thesupramolecular structure of polymers). Khimiya, Leningrad

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Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J MolMed 78:74–80. DOI 10.1007/s001090000086

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Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J MolMed (in press). DOI 10.1007/s001090000086

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Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Dig JMol Med. DOI 10.1007/s801090000086

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Doe J (1999) Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects.Royal Society of Chemistry.Available via DIALOG. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of subordinatedocument. Cited 15 Jan 1999

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Healthwise Knowledgebase (1998) US Pharmacopeia, Rockville. http://www.healthwise.org.Cited 21 Sept 1998

Supplementary material/private homepage

Doe J (2000) Title of supplementary material. http://www.privatehomepage.com. Cited 22 Feb2000

University site

Doe J (1999) Title of preprint. http://www.uni­heidelberg.de/mydata.html. Cited 25 Dec 1999

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Doe J (1999) Trivial HTTP, RFC2169. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in­notes/rfc2169.txt. Cited 12 Nov 1999

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ISSN International Centre (1999) Global ISSN database. http://www.issn.org. Cited 20 Feb2000

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