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 >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "sage-devel" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.