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References
The author is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of his bibliography.
The reference list should be numbered and arranged in the order in which they appear in the text, containing only those references found in the text. The references in the text should be indicated with the number in parentheses. When several references with the same author(s) are listed, they should be in chronological order. No unpublished data should be included in the reference list; it should be referred to in the text itself (e.g. "According to the unpublished results of ..." or "In a personal communication from..."
References to periodicals should include the authors, title, name of periodical, year, volume, and pages. Those for books should include authors or editors, title, publisher, city and year; those for a section of a book should contain the authors, title, editors, book title, publisher, city, year and inclusive pages.
Examples of typical reference entries:
1. Anonymous. Benign asbestos pleural effusions. Lancet 1988;1:1145–6.
2. Breslow Ne, Day NE. Statistical methods in cancer research; vol II (The design and analysis of cohort studies.) Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1987. (IARC Scientific publications no 82.)
3. Doll R Sir. Effects of exposure to vinyl chloride: an assessment of the evidence. Scand J Work Environ Health 1988;14:61–78.
4. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Overall evaluations of carcino-genicity: an updating of IARC monographs, volumes 1–42. Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1987. (IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans; suppl 7.)
5. Karvonen M, Mikheev MI, ed. Epidemiology of occupational health. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, 1986. (WHO Regional Publications, European Series; no 20.)
6. Nurminen M. Application of mathematical modelling for estimating the biological half-time of chromium and nickel in field studies. In: Lansun C, Patil GP, Zhaoyong Y, Dinamo L, Zhien M, ed. Mathematical biology: proceedings of the international conference on biomathematics, June 1988. Xi'an: Xi'an Jiaotong University Press, 1988:49.
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Editing will be done at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. If the editor should make major changes to the manuscript, the final draft will be sent back to the author for approval. The editor will not notify the author of minor linguistic changes.
Submission of papers
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Suvi Lehtinen, Editor in Chief
African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
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Marianne Joronen Editor of the African Newsletter