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Book, Part of a Book
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ABCD. (2014) 12343: Standard name. City, State: All Bio Crops Diversity.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/iles.20151122334.
Author, A. B. (2014b). Title of paper. In B. Editor (Ed.), Proc. 10th Intl. Conf. Agricultural Engineering. Vol. 2, pp. 55-66. St. Joseph,
Mich.: ASABE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1234/4x.567.
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