On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 9:36:06 AM UTC, Martin R wrote:
>
> 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
>
we talk about readability of the source code, too.
IMHO one should not name variables and functions just using sequential
numbers :-)
Having said this, I again would argue for an option to have aliases.
E.g. say there is a popular Arxiv preprint cited 10 times in the source,
which then becomes
a publication. It is really unnecessary to change all these 10 citations?
>
>
> 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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