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Many XML processing applications (such as our Highwire Online platforms) do not process XML with the BOM Marker in place. Files including a BOM marker cannot be loaded. Existence of the marker should be avoided. XML-editors offer different options for avoiding the BOM-marker in the output. in Oxygen for example it is possible to set the in Preferences->"Encoding" the "UTF-8 BOM handling" to "Don't Write". In case of a file with a BOM-marker, the file should be saved again after making this change in the Preferences.
Citations
The for For the reference section at the end of an article or chapter, the <mixed-citation> element is used. When properly tagged, a DOI to the cited publication will be added, resulting from a CrossRef search. The following guidelines should be taken into account for the tagging within the <mixed-citation>-element:
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