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Author lists follow each style's rules (et al., ampersands, initials), titles get the right capitalization, and the list is sorted the way the style requires. Switch styles in one tap. Download a Word document or HTML page with real italics, or BibTeX and RIS files for Zotero, EndNote, Mendeley and LaTeX. 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(2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539 (journal and volume in italics), with (LeCun et al., 2015) in text." }, { "description": "A book by ISBN in Chicago author-date", "prompt": "Chicago author-date citation for ISBN 9780262033848", "tools_triggered": [ "create_citation" ], "expected_behavior": "Cormen, Thomas H., Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. 2009. Introduction to Algorithms. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. In text: (Cormen et al. 2009)." }, { "description": "Harvard list with a 34-author article and a book missing its place", "prompt": "Harvard references for 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 and ISBN 978-0-374-53355-7", "tools_triggered": [ "create_citation" ], "expected_behavior": "Sorted list: Jumper, J. et al. (2021) ‘Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold’, Nature, 596(7873), pp. 583–589, then Kahneman, D. 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