Style Manual - Australian Government (author-date)

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Website
World Health Organization (2023) Climate change, https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health, accessed 15 October 2026.
In-text (World Health Organization 2023)
Book
Lee H (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird, J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia.
In-text (Lee 1960)
Journal Article
Watson JD and Crick FHC (1953) ‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid’, Nature, 171(4356):737–738, doi:10.1038/171737a0.
In-text (Watson and Crick 1953)
Newspaper Article
Wilford JN (21 July 1969) ‘Men Walk on Moon’, The New York Times.
In-text (Wilford 21 July 1969)

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