On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 11:52:57 AM UTC, Martin R wrote:
>
> Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2016 13:36:31 UTC+2 schrieb Dima Pasechnik:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 :-)
>>
>> Hm, I'd say that reference identifiers in docstrings and variable names
> are a bit different. The argument in favour of using numeric references is
> that it encourages writing: "In 1783, Xin and Müller [1] have shown foo"
> instead of "In [XiMü1783] foo is shown".
>
No, we are talking about the source, not the output. You will not want to
write \cite{ref4242} in your LaTeX, you will rather use
\cite{sqlifemean}. Similarly in Python code or in rst files.
And also writing Xin and Müller \cite{sqlifemean} 10 times is bad style, I
think...
>
>
>> 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 have implemented the following for findstat: as long as title and
> authors coincide (using a threshold for Levenstein distance to get rid of
> some noise such as accents and punctuation, etc.) the two entries are
> merged, with preference (in the bibtex file) given to the MR entry. (I use
> MathSciNet, zbMath, arXiv and DOI for citations).
>
> Martin
>
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