references <- c(
  "Dumitru, T.A., Smith, D., Chang, E.Z., and Graham, S.A., 2001, Uplift, exhumation, and deformation in the Japanese Mt Everest, Paleozoic and Mesozoic tectonic evolution of central Africa: from continental assembly to intracontinental deformation: Journal of Neverland, v. 3, no. 192, p. 71-199.",
  "Dumitru, T.A., Smith, D., Chang, E.Z., and Graham, S.A., 2001, Uplift, exhumation, and deformation in the Japanese Mt Everest, Paleozoic and Mesozoic tectonic evolution of central Africa: from continental assembly to intracontinental deformation: Journal of Neverland, no. 3.",
  "Dumitru, T.A., Smith, D., Chang, E.Z., and Graham, S.A., 2001, Uplift, exhumation, and deformation in the Japanese Mt Everest, Paleozoic and Mesozoic tectonic evolution of central Africa: from continental assembly to intracontinental deformation: Journal of Neverland, p. 71-199."
)
regmatches(references, regexpr(":\\s*\\K[^:]*?(?=,\\s*(?:v|no|p)\\.)", references, perl=TRUE))

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