well, for preprints clearly there is of course the arXiv number and for
sciences without a good database, there is doi.
concerning readability, there is a well known justification for using
sequential numbers
I'm not making this up, I used this to organise the references for
www.findstat.org, and I'm very happy with the result.
Martin
Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2016 11:10:00 UTC+2 schrieb Dima Pasechnik:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 8:46:13 AM UTC, David Roe wrote:
>>
>> Preprints won't have MR numbers. I also find MR numbers less readable.
>>
> and not all the CS-related publications make it into MR database, either.
>
>
>>
>> We could just append letters ("a" then "b," etc) if there are collisions.
>>
>
> I wonder whether it is possible to create aliases for references, i.e.
> make [Bla]_ and [Foo]_ both refer to [Foo].
> This would allow less changes in the source.
>
>
>
>
>> David
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:38 AM, 'Martin R' via sage-devel <
>> sage-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not use the MR number as reference format?
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2016 01:03:27 UTC+2 schrieb John H Palmieri:
>>>>
>>>> As discussed in another thread [1]_ on sage-devel recently, I propose
>>>> changing our policy toward references:
>>>>
>>>> - all references should be put into a master bibliography file, and
>>>> - all references should be, insofar as possible, in a standard form:
>>>> for a work by a single author "Author" published in YEAR: [AutYEAR]. For a
>>>> work published by "Author" and "Coauthor" in YEAR: [ACYEAR]. The year
>>>> should be four digits.
>>>>
>>>> The main point is the first item is to avoid conflicting
>>>> cross-references, and it also seems to make sense to list all references
>>>> in
>>>> one place. (The goal behind the second item is just consistency.)
>>>>
>>>> This is implemented at https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21454.
>>>>
>>>> Any comments?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> REFERENCES:
>>>>
>>>> .. [1]
>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/-_kszKLhICw/SjLMs4rXCAAJ
>>>>
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