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References
I. For a list of references:

Article in a journal
Arasu, A., Cho, J., Garcia-Molina, H., Paepcke, A., and Raghavan, S. 2001. Searching the web. ACM Trans. Internet Technol. 1, 1 (Aug.), 2-43.

Journal article in press
Fitting, M. 2001. Fixpoint semantics for logic programming - a survey. Journal of Theoretical Computer Science. To appear.
Any article in press
Dodis, Y., Sahai, A., and Smith, A. Optimal lower bound for perfect all-or-nothing transforms. In preparation, April 2000.

Article in a conference proceeding
Kha, D. D., Yoshikawa, M., and Uemura, S. 2001. An XML indexing structure with relative region coordinate, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (Heidelberg, Germany, April 2001) IEEE Computer Society Press, 313-320.

Titled portion of a book
Apt, K. 1990. Logic programming, in Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science, J. van Leeuwen, ed. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam.

Whole book
Kaufman, L. and Rousseeuw, P. J. 1990. Finding Groups in Data. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY.

Article from book in a series
Benjamin, M. and Fein, T. 2000. All-or-nothing transforms. In Advances in Cryptology--Eurocrypt 00, R. Ellis, Ed. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1807. Springer-Verlag, 180-186.

Dissertation
Sabin, M. 1976. The use of piecewise shapes for the numerical representation of shape. Ph.D. dissertation. Computer and Automization Institute, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.

Web sites
Melnick, S., Raghavan Yang, B., and Garcia-Molina, H. 2001. Building a distributed full-text index for the web. Tech. Rep. SIDL-WP-2000-0140, Stanford Digital Library Project. Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Available at http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/get/SIDL-WP-2000-0140.

Robie, J. 1999. XML query language (XQL). Available at http://metalab.unc.edu/xql/xql-proposal.xml.

World Wide Web Consortium. 1999. XML Path language (XPath) version 1.0. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath

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Footnotes and numbered lists (ACM examples)
II. For a numbered list or footnotes (authors may be in direct order, or not):

Article in a journal
Lessig, L. and Resnick, P., 1999. "Zoning speech on the Internet: A legal and technical model." Michigan Law Review 98, 2, pp. 395-431.

Article in a conference proceeding
Russell Impagliazzo and David Zuckerman. How to recycle random bits, in 30th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Research Triangle Park NC, October 1989), IEEE, pages 248-253.

Portion of a book
K. Apt. Logic programming. In Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science, J. van Leeuwen, Ed. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1990.

Whole book
Allan Borodin and Ran El-Yaniv. Online Computation and Competive Analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Article from book in a series
Benjamin, M. and Fein, T. All-or-nothing transforms. In Richard Ellis, ed., Advances in Cryptology--Eurocrypt 00, pages 180-186. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1807. Springer-Verlag, 14-18 May 2000.

Dissertation
Sabin, M. The use of piecewise shapes for the numerical representation of shape. Ph.D. dissertation. Computer and Automization Institute, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary, 1976.

Web sites
The GAP group, Aachen, St. Andrews. GAP -- Groups, Algorithms, and Programming, Version 4.2, 1999. Available at http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~gap.

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Last updated 1December 2004