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Watson and Crick's 1953 paper on the structure of DNA, as Citation Creation sets it in IEEE.

[1]
J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick, “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid,” Nature, vol. 171, no. 4356, pp. 737–738, Apr. 1953, doi: 10.1038/171737a0.
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its number in brackets
J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick,
initials before the surname
“Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid,”
comma inside the quotes
Nature,
a one-word journal in full
vol. 171, no. 4356, pp. 737–738, Apr. 1953,
vol., no., pp., then the date
doi: 10.1038/171737a0.
doi: and a full stop
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[1]
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[1, pp. 737–738]

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