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17 built-in styles plus 130+ journal and university styles via CSL. Switch with one click, correctly formatted every time.

APA

Babonis, L. S. (2022). A novel regulatory gene… PNAS, 119(19).

MLA

Babonis, Leslie S., et al. “A novel regulatory gene…” PNAS, vol. 119, 2022.

Harvard

Babonis, L.S. et al. (2022) ‘A novel regulatory gene…’, PNAS, 119(19).

Chicago

Babonis, Leslie S. 2022. “A novel regulatory gene…” PNAS 119 (19).

Turabian

Babonis, Leslie S. “A novel regulatory gene…” PNAS 119, no. 19 (2022).

ASA

Babonis, Leslie S. 2022. “A novel regulatory gene…” PNAS 119(19).

AMA

Babonis LS, et al. A novel regulatory gene… PNAS. 2022;119(19).

ACS

Babonis, L. S. A novel regulatory gene… PNAS 2022, 119, 19.

CSE

Babonis LS. A novel regulatory gene… PNAS. 2022;119(19).

Vancouver

Babonis LS, et al. A novel regulatory gene… PNAS. 2022;119(19).

IEEE

L. S. Babonis et al., “A novel regulatory gene…,” PNAS, vol. 119, 2022.

MHRA

Leslie S. Babonis, ‘A novel regulatory gene…’, PNAS, 119 (2022).

Oxford

Leslie S. Babonis et al., ‘A novel regulatory gene…’, PNAS, 119/19 (2022).

OSCOLA

Leslie S Babonis, ‘A novel regulatory gene…’ (PNAS 2022).

Bluebook

Leslie S. Babonis et al., A novel regulatory gene…, 119 PNAS (2022).

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References
Babonis, L. S. (2022). A novel regulatory gene… PNAS, 119(19).
IPCC. (2021). Climate change 2021: The physical science basis.
Vaswani, A. (2017). Attention is all you need. NeurIPS.
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