Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ulrik!rolfl From: rolfl@hedda.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: apalike.sty Message-ID: Date: 6 May 91 09:33:09 GMT References: <1991May2.032429.1654@agate.berkeley.edu> <8959@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Distribution: comp Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: marty@puppsr.Princeton.EDU's message of 2 May 91 14:32:46 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: hedda.uio.no > > 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. The Astrophysical Journal and many other astronomy journals use apalike also. > > 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. Me too. I hate having to page back and forth to the references list at the end of an article to check each numbered reference. It also makes the writing *clearer* I think. The in-text use of the author(s) name(s) in particular is redundant with the numbered footnotes. As for how to \cite these in-text citations, I simply write out the text and then include the proper \nocite at the end of the paragraph to get the references list correct. Yeah, all right, but for most purposes (i. e. textbooks) I don't WANT references. I take the stuff on faith. What I hate is to skip layers upon layers of references, and occationaly skip interesting pieces of informatiopn inbetween all the references. Footnotes would have made it easier to skip the unimportant parts (and leave jumping back and forth between test and references a task for researchers). I see the need of professionals to have easy access to the references, however. What I really oppose to is using the apalike styles in textbooks. Rolf Lindgren | "The opinions expressed above are 616 Bjerke Studentheim | not necessarily those of anyone" N-0589 OSLO 5 | rolfl@hedda.uio.no