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Many of the articles have supplementary material in a variety of media. Listed below are the file formats most commonly used on nature.com:
Document: PDF, Word, Power Point, Excel
Citation: Research Information Systems: RIS
Image: JPEG, GIF, BMP
Video: Quicktime: MOV, MP4; Flash Video: FLV; Windows: WMV
Audio: WMA; MP3

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Adobe PDF Reader
Adobe Flash Video
Quicktime Player
Windows Media Player
Microsoft Office - open source office suite alternatives: Apache Open Office, Libre Office, Oxygen Office
EndNote
Reference Manager

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