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References should be cited in the text in the following form:

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Lancaster, F.W. 1972. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval. Information Resources Press, Washington, D.C.

Markham, J.W. & Hagmeier, E. 1982. Observations on the effects of germanium dioxide on the growth of macro-algae and diatoms. Phycologia 21(2):125-131.

Starr, S. 1982. Databases in the marine sciences. Online Review 6(2):109-125.

Webster, J. 1994. Endangered information: searching the grey literature in the Pacific Northwest. In: Preserving the Past, Looking to the Future: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Sciences Libraries and Informations Centers (ed. by J.W. Markham & A.L. Duda), pp. 119-135. IAMSLIC, Fort Pierce, FL.

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