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Humanities

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Website
World Health Organization, 2023. “Climate change,” at https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health, accessed 15 October 2026.
In-text (World Health Organization, 2023)
Book
Harper Lee, 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.
In-text (Lee, 1960)
Journal Article
James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick, 1953. “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid,” Nature, volume 171, issue 4356, pp. 737–738.
In-text (Watson and Crick, 1953)
Newspaper Article
John Noble Wilford, 1969. “Men Walk on Moon,” The New York Times, p. 1.
In-text (Wilford, 1969)

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