Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!ilan343 From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: apalike.sty Message-ID: <1991May2.032429.1654@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 2 May 91 03:24:29 GMT References: Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Distribution: comp Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 In article rolfl@hedda.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes: > >I also need a conclusive argument from a psychologist why psychologists, of all >people, have choosen to adopt this utterly ridiculous citation style. > I don't think it's just psychologists, I know of a couple of Mathematical Programming journals that allow "apa" as one of their acceptable styles. As a reader, I like the idea. If I am familiar with the bibliography, the simple mention of "Calluphid (1978)" is enough to remind me of which article the author is referring to. Numbered styles can't do that. As I writer, the thing is a mess, but mostly because software doesn't automate it. If I had the \cite / \cite2 option suggested in the original posting I could live with it. Now let me turn the question around, other than aesthetics, why does the tex crowd ( with lot's of others, actually) hate the apa style so intensely?