13 Jan
2009
13 Jan
'09
8:01 p.m.
2009/1/12 Alan G Isaac
: Numerical keys will clearly *not* be consistent. The same key will refer to different citations on different pages, and key width will not be uniform.
On 1/12/2009 2:35 AM Stéfan van der Walt apparently wrote:
We automatically renumber the citations to take care of this.
But this just creates a different inconsistency: different numbers refer to the same article, and additionally that article citation might be formatted in so many different ways that it is difficult to determine that it is in fact the same article. There really is no substitute for using real cite keys and a central database of citations. Alan Isaac