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92 below)
932. Zhu L, Dong J, Jiang W, Yuan DD, Jiang H, Yan C, et al. Screening study on rheological
94 behavior and phase transition point of polymer-containing fluids produced under the oil
95 freezing point temperature. Open Chem. 2019;17(1):1442-8. doi: 10.1515/chem-2019-
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144  (J. Smith and P. Brown, presented at the 4th Symposium on Food Microbiology,
145 Overton, IL, 13-15 June 1989),
146  (J. C. Odell, April 1970, Process for batch culturing, U.S. patent 484,363,770),
147  (J. Smith, 20 June 1999, Australian Patent Office),
148  ... from the GenBank database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/index.html),
149  ... using ABC software (version 2.2; Department of Microbiology, State University,
150 http://www.stu.micro).

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152Published or accepted ('in press') manuscripts, books and book chapters, theses, as well as
153unpublished materials and preprints should be included in the reference list. References to
154published meeting abstracts should be kept to a minimum.

155For all references, list the first six authors; add "et al." if there are additional authors.
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159Please use the following style for the reference list:

160Published papers
161  Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients.
162 N Engl J Med. 2002;347(4):284-7. doi:10.1157 2002-x34742847.
163  Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al.
164 Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion
165 injury. Brain Res. 2002;935(1-2):40-6. doi.10.18.x548689553.
166  Ellingsen AE, Wilhelmsen I. Sykdomsangst blant medisin- og jusstudenter. Tidsskr Nor
167 Laegeforen. 2002;122(8):785-7. Norwegian.
168  Mansharamani M, Chilton BS. The reproductive importance of P-type ATPases. Mol
169 Cell Endocrinol. 2002;188(1-2):22-5. Corrected and republished from: Mol Cell
170 Endocrinol. 2001;183(1-2):123-6.

171Unpublished material/forthcoming and preprints

172  Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature of balancing selection in
173 Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Forthcoming 2002.
174  Alvarez R. Near optimal neural network estimator for spectral x-ray photon counting
175 data with pileup. arXiv:1702.01006v1 [Preprint]. 2017 [cited 2017 Feb 9]: [11 p.].
176 Available from: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01006
177  Bar DZ, Atkatsh K, Tavarez U, Erdos MR, Gruenbaum Y, Collins FS. Biotinylation by
178 antibody recognition- A novel method for proximity labeling. BioRxiv 069187
179 [Preprint]. 2016 [cited 2017 Jan 12]. Available
180 from: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/069187v1

181Electronic journal articles

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182  Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory
183 role. Am J Nurs [Internet]. 2002 Jun [cited 2002 Aug 12];102(6):[about 1 p.]. Available
184 from: https://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com/ Subscription required.

185Books and book chapters

186  Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St.
187 Louis: Mosby; 2002.
188  Gilstrap LC 3rd, Cunningham FG, VanDorsten JP, editors. Operative obstetrics. 2nd ed.
189 New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002.
190  Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors.
191 In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York:
192 McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

193Theses
194  Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans
195 [dissertation]. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Michigan University; 2002.

196Conference proceedings
197  Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the 5th
198 Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York: Springer; 2002.

199Conference paper
200  Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza's computational effort statistic for
201 genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C, Tettamanzi AG, editors.
202 Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on
203 Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. p. 182-
204 91.

205Newspaper articles
206  Tynan T. Medical improvements lower homicide rate: study sees drop in assault rate.
207 The Washington Post. 2002 Aug 12;Sect. A:2 (col. 4).

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