Textual Practice

Humanities

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Website
World Health Organization, ‘Climate change’, (12/October 2023) [https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health], accessed 15/10/2026.
Footnote World Health Organization, ‘Climate change’, (12/October 2023) [https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health], accessed 15/10/2026.
Book
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1960).
Footnote Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1960).
Journal Article
James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick, ‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid’, Nature, 171.4356 (25/April 1953), pp. 737–738.
Footnote James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick, ‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid’, Nature, 171.4356 (25/April 1953), pp. 737–738.
Newspaper Article
John Noble Wilford, ‘Men Walk on Moon’, presented at the The New York Times, 21/July 1969, pp. 1.
Footnote John Noble Wilford, ‘Men Walk on Moon’, presented at the The New York Times, 21/July 1969, pp. 1.

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