Timeline for Is it acceptable to use the citation references like [1] or [Joh] as nouns in mathematical writing?
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 20:28 | vote | accept | Drew | ||
| Aug 18, 2016 at 16:50 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Aug 18, 2016 at 14:45 | comment | added | Matthieu Romagny | "Technology and innovation has turned everything into shorthand. Nothing wrong with that" : I disagree with that opinion. I think that it is extremely important that math texts should be clear and easy to read (or even pleasant). Obviously it is much more pleasant to read "defined in Eilenberg-MacLane [4]" than "defined in [4]", and as a reader I don't want to keep turning pages all the time to check the references. | |
| Aug 18, 2016 at 12:49 | history | edited | Friedrich Knop | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 18, 2016 at 4:39 | comment | added | KConrad | @james.nixon, it is not at all like writing "u" in place of "you" in a text message. Article references have an author name (or names), tite, journal name, year, pages, and so on. A format that allows this to be abbreviated is quite different from saving a half-second of your life by simplifying a three-letter word to a single letter due to an accident of pronunciation. | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 21:49 | comment | added | user78249 | Agreed, it flows much more naturally in comparison to the converse. Sort of like writing "u" instead of "you" in a text message. Technology and innovation has turned everything into shorthand. Nothing wrong with that. | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 21:47 | history | answered | Friedrich Knop | CC BY-SA 3.0 |