Table 5.

Examples of sentences with high number of in-text references

Journal	Section	Sentence
PLOS Medicine	R	The systematic review identified 188 studies that provided prevalence estimates [18,29,36–223]
PLOS Medicine	M	Data for calculation of the number of snakebite envenomings were obtained for 46 countries [9–60] while data for calculation of the number of deaths due to snakebite were obtained for 22 countries [9–11,18, 31,47,49,51,56,58–72] by this process
PLOS ONE	R	As a result, 221 unique genes and 4 protein complexes (DNA-PK, HSP70, MRN(95), RAS) were identified from around 200 papers that studied radiation response-related biomarkers [4], [14]–[185]
PLOS ONE	M	Details of each study [11]–[113] were entered into a database by one investigator with a 100% re-check