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-date: 2009-10-01
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-citation: 'Your Name, You. (2009). &quot;Paper Title Number 1.&quot; <i>Journal 1</i>. 1(1).'
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-This paper is about the number 1. The number 2 is left for future work.
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-date: 2010-10-01
-venue: 'Journal 1'
-paperurl: 'http://academicpages.github.io/files/paper2.pdf'
-citation: 'Your Name, You. (2010). &quot;Paper Title Number 2.&quot; <i>Journal 1</i>. 1(2).'
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-This paper is about the number 2. The number 3 is left for future work.
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-date: 2015-10-01
-venue: 'Journal 1'
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-This paper is about the number 3. The number 4 is left for future work.
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-This paper is about the number 1. The number 2 is left for future work.
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