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Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference



Am Montag, den 27.10.2008, 15:41 +0000 schrieb Chris Walker:
> Manuel Prinz <debian@pinguinkiste.de> writes:
> > I used the scheme "First Author, Year, Colon, Software" for quite some
> > time now. Example: "Baker2001:apbs" for APBS [0]. Until now, I did not
> > have any problems with that.
> 
> If you were to put the software first - eg "apbs:Baker2001", tab
> completion of the reference would be easier as I'm more likely to
> remember the name of the software than the name of the author.

Sounds reasonable.

> I used to use the scheme used by bids.to.bibtex - which was "First
> Author's surname, first letter of the surname of other authors,
> year". This gives a bigger namespace, but is probably not necessary
> for software.

Yes, I guess your proposal above should suffice for software.

Best regards
Manuel

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