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They should include only publications cited in the text and be in alphabetical order, each detailed in the following order: authors' names and initials, date of publication. title, name of the Journal abbreviated in the World List of Scientific Periodicals (4th ed. 1963) .the volume and the first and last pages of the article. For example:
Burkness, E.C. 1996 Action thresholds and sequential sampling plaans for striped cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomeidae) iin cucurbits. M.S. thesis, University of Minnesota. 103pp
Elizinga, A. and N. Alonzo 1983 Analysis for methylated amino acids in proteins. In: C.H.W. Hirs and S.N Timasheff (eds) Methods in enzymology. Vol. 91, Part I. New York: Academic Press, pp. 8-13.
Hutchison, W. D., V.A. Fritz, R. Jones et al. 1995 Commercial vegetable pest management production guide-199. Minnesota Extension Service. BU-1880-S, 96pp
Masaki, S. and T. Sakai 1965 Summer diapause in the seasonal life cycle of Mamestra brassicae Linne (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ). Jp. J. Appl. Ent. Zool. 9 : 191- 205.
Wratten. S. D. and G. I. A. Fry 1980 Field and laboratory exercises in ecology, London: Edward Arnold, pp. 98-103.

In the text, references should be as Smith ( 1998 ) , (Smith 1998), Smith (1992, 1998), Smith and Stone (1998) , (Smith and Stone 1998). When a citation includes more than two authors, the paper should be referred in the text as Masaki et al. (1996), (Masaki et al. 1996). If papers by the same authors in the same year are cited, they should be distinguished by the letters a , b, c, etc.

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