Maybe <Blatt> <Green> <Asimov> or
even <ref> Blatt</ref> <ref>
Green</ref> <ref>Asimov</ref>, which would then lead to <Blatt>
Blatt,
Bill, "A Big Book of Dogs", London 1881 etc. etc. in the actual
references section. Same amount of typing as the current
implementation, and much cleaner to read in the text.
Using angle brackets for refs is a bad idea - they look too much like
HTML tags. <ref name="foo"/> works for me.