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LaTeX
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Title.
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Reference to a journal publication: [1] J.K.
Hale, W.Z. Huang, Period doubling in singularly perturbed delay equations, J. Differential Equations 114 (1994) 1-23. Reference
to a book: [2] E. Borger, Computability, Complexity, Logic, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1989. Reference to a chapter
in an edited book: [3] A.K. Lenstra, H.W. Lenstra, Jr., Algorithms in number theory, in: J. van Leeuwen (Ed.), Handbook of
Computer Science, vol. 194, Springer, Berlin, pp. 383-393.
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