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All authors are to be listed in the references.
References should be current and readily available to readers of the Journal , and should also be published material. Personal communications or unpublished material are not recommended as references. Do not use any abbreviations within the references section, not even for the titles of well-known periodicals. Journal of the American Medical Association must not be listed as JAMA . Each table must be numbered consecutively in the order of its initial citation in the text.