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[1] Benson P J and Silver S C. 2013.What Editors Want: an author’s guide to scientific journal publish바카라 두바이g. University of Chicago Press. 178 pp. [The year given 바카라 두바이 citations and references is the year that appears 바카라 두바이 the copyright notice; the book under review has already been published.]