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The author's summary: ``\textit{S. Dougherty, P. Gaborit, M. Harada, A. Munemasa}, and \textit{P. Solé} [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 45, 2345--2360 (1999; Zbl 0956.94025)] have previously given an upper bound on the minimum Hamming weight of type IV self-dual codes over some rings \(R\) of four elements. We improve their bound in the case \(R=\mathbb Z_4\), finding that the minimum Hamming weight of a type IV \(\mathbb Z_4\)-code of length \(n\) is at most \(2\lfloor n/12\rfloor\), except when \(n=4\), and \(n=8\), when the bound is 2, and \(n=16\), with bound \(4\). We also prove that the minimum Euclidean weight of a type IV code over \(\mathbb Z_4\) of length \(n\geq12\) is at most \(8\lfloor n/12\rfloor\).'' For the entire collection see [Zbl 0944.00096].