SAGE - Vancouver (brackets)

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World Health Organization. Climate change, https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health (2023, accessed 15 October 2026).
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Lee H. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1960.
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Journal Article
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Watson JD, Crick FHC. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. Nature 1953; 171: 737–738.
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Newspaper Article
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Wilford JN. Men Walk on Moon. The New York Times, 21 July 1969, p. 1.
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