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Keywords
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References References
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the author's name.
When there is more than one author, all are to be cited. References should be listed together at the end of each
paper and not given as a footnote. They should be arranged in alphabetical order (first author's surname) to appear as follows:
Bertine,
K.K. and K.K. Turekian (1973) Molybdenum in marine deposits. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 37, pp.1415-1434.
Richards, F.A. (1965)
Dissolved gases other than carbon dioxide. In: Chemical Oceanography, J.P. Riley and G. Skirrow, editors, Academic Press, 1, pp. 197-225.
Riley, J.P. and G. Skirrow, editors (1965) Chemical Oceanography, Academic Press, 1, 712 pp.
Sverdrup, H.U., M.W. Johnson and
R.H. Fleming (1942) The Oceans: their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology, Prentice-Hall, 1087 pp.
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Jones, P. (1996) jones@sti.com
Research activities at Smith Technology Institute.
Smith, F. and Peabody, A.N. (1997) Hydrographic data for the Sargasso Sea, July-September
1993, SarSea ission. (Deep-Sea Data Centre, Hull, UK), online, dataset, 740 MB.
Green, A. (1991) Deformations in Acanthaster planci
from the Coral Sea, observed during UEA Special Project 7, July 1978. Journal of Pollution Research, 14(7) suppl, CD-ROM, photographic
images, 240 MB.
James, Z. (1997) g.smith@uea.ac.uk Ecological effects of sea wall construction during 1994 at Bridlington,
UK. Listserver Message, Eco-list eco@glm.gov, 20 October 1995.
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