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+    <title>American Physical Society - et al. (if more than 3 authors)</title>
+    <title-short>APS-et-al</title-short>
+    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-physical-society-et-al</id>
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+    <author>
+      <name>Jonas Lähnemann</name>
+      <email>jonas@pdi-berlin.de</email>
+    </author>
+    <category citation-format="numeric"/>
+    <category field="physics"/>
+    <summary>Short variant (first author et al., if more than 3 authors) of the American Physical Society (APS) citation style. Volume is bold and year comes last in normal brackets.</summary>
+    <updated>2020-08-19T17:28:00+00:00</updated>
+    <rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
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