How to Cite a Preprint in AGLC4

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Devlin, Jacob et al, ‘BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding’ (Preprint No arXiv:1810.04805, arXiv, 11 October 2018)

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Jacob Devlin et al, ‘BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding’ (Preprint No arXiv:1810.04805, arXiv, 11 October 2018).

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    Bibliography entry: Devlin, Jacob et al, ‘BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding’ (Preprint No arXiv:1810.04805, arXiv, 11 October 2018) Footnote: Jacob Devlin et al, ‘BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding’ (Preprint No arXiv:1810.04805, arXiv, 11 October 2018).

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