Dear Joseph, I'm not familiar with scimax, but if it uses org-ref to handle citations then you might give a try to citeproc-orgref (https://github.com/andras-simonyi/citeproc-orgref) which is able to format BibTeX citations in html exports according to any CSL style (Chicago author-date is the default).
best wishes, András On 3 March 2018 at 09:22, Joseph Vidal-Rosset <joseph.vidal.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear John, > > I am happy to tell you that your scimax > https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax is a wonderful tool for emacs, for > org-mode and for exporting in LaTeX with references. I advice strongly > its use. > > I am using Gnus and not mu4e to write emails and it works well now > thanks of the help of Eric Fraga. > > This email is just about a detail. I guess it would be possible in > theory to get the bibliography style that I want in email as well as > in any other exported document, but it is not the case for the html > export and therefore not for html email in Gnus. It is too bad, > because apalike for example is a good option that avoids Jan von > Plato’s reproach vonplato2017: > > A great disservice is being done to scholarship by the reference system > prevalent today that has running numbers, usually in square brackets, > for the items in the references. The defects of this system are twofold. > First, it is enormously disturbing for the reader to be constantly > checking the list of references to see what article or book is being > referred to. The reader’s memory is burdened with information that > has no meaning elsewhere. Second, the awareness of who did what > and when is eroded little by little. If we read Gödel (1931) or Gentzen > (1936), we know what that is, contrary to a plain [104] and [90], say, > and similarly with hundreds of other works. Such couplings of names > and years give us a timeline that is indispensable for an awareness of > the development of logic or any other part of science. The thoughtless > “bibtex” square bracket numbering system of references is destroying > such awareness and should therefore be universally abandoned. It has > just one, totally inessential advantage: that it saves some space. In a > standard article, that may be a few lines, and in a book, a page or two. > > So, do you think that it is possible to adopt the apalike bibliography > style in html document also? > > Best wishes, > > Jo. > > Bibliography > > [vonplato2017] Jan von Plato, The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of > Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age, Princeton > University Press (2017). > >