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Website
[Earth Science Communications Team(n.d.)] N Earth Science Communications Team. Climate Change: Evidence and Causes. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/. Accessed: 2024-03-15.
In-text [Earth Science Communications Team(n.d.)]
Book
[Lee(1960)] H Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1960.
In-text [Lee(1960)]
Journal Article
[Watson and Crick(1953)] J D Watson and F H C Crick. The Structure of DNA. Nature. 171(4356):737–738, 1953. doi: 10.1038/171737a0.
In-text [Watson and Crick(1953)]
Newspaper Article
[Wilford(1969)] J N Wilford. Man Walks on Moon. The New York Times.
In-text [Wilford(1969)]

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