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Watson and Crick's 1953 paper on the structure of DNA, as Citation Creation sets it in Harvard (Cite Them Right 12th edition).

Watson, J.D. and Crick, F.H.C. (1953) ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid’, Nature, 171(4356), pp. 737–738. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0.
Watson, J.D. and Crick, F.H.C.
initials with no spaces
(1953)
year in brackets, no full stop
‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid’,
the article in single quotes
Nature, 171(4356), pp. 737–738.
journal in italics, pp. for pages
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0.
“Available at:” the DOI, no date
In brackets, with a page
(Watson and Crick, 1953, p. 737)
In your sentence
Watson and Crick (1953, p. 737)

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12th or 13th edition

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No access date after a DOI

A web page needs the day you read it, but an article with a DOI does not.

Up to three names in the text

From four authors, give the first and et al.

The rest, from citing in your text to what changed in the latest edition, is in the Harvard (Cite Them Right 12th edition) guide.

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