The first category of papers relied on secondary and tertiary citations (many of which culminated in personal communications) and reported the number of patients treated without denominators.
Any references to in-press manuscripts or personal communications should be given a number in the text and placed, in correct sequence, in the references and notes.
Subscribers in future personal communications system (PCS) networks will be assigned portable personal numbers, or non-geographic phone numbers (NGPNs), which will not indicate the service provider and home location register (HLR) database which serves the subscribers.
Personal communications with colleagues in academia and industry indicate that the number of screening projects to identify microbial cultures detoxifying DON is much higher than is known from literature; most of these attempts failed and were not published.
This information is transmitted in a number of ways, including presentations at scientific meetings, personal communications, and, most importantly, published literature.
Many intensivists in clinical practice have for a number of years decried a lack of support (personal communications) when faced with demands for treatment that they feel would not be in the patient's best interests or for treatment that would be deemed inappropriate.
During these visits, we retrieved information through personal communications with the staff, field workers, and community members.
We and others (personal communications: D. Klug, NCI; C. Mackall, NCI; C. Willis, Amgen) have tested a number of polyclonal and monoclonal anti-IL-7 antibodies and failed to observe a positive reaction in thymic tissue (Table 1).
For example, we are aware of a number of attempts in some English cleft centres to reduce the duration of hospital stay, including a move towards same-day admissions for all primary cleft lip repair surgery and routine suture removal in outpatient clinics (personal communications).
It can be an annoying and daunting task to change your cell phone number, especially if you are reliant on your cell for business and personal communications.
Commenting on the operational cases, the Open Rights Group's executive director Jim Killock objected to another lack of specificity: "The updated operational case for communications data shows again just how extensive the government's surveillance regimes is, with a large number of government organisations and local authorities being able to access our personal communications data".
