Mark Ryan wrote:
On 06/09/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
So why not just use ''ibid.'' of ''op. cit.'' as appropriate?
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Because of the fluid numbering changes making it currently impossible to refer to other references except by name/author or something like that. Which certainly isn't what is done in footnotes in my uni's referencing style (I can't speak for others).
In CS, we generally use a style similar to Wikipedia's (though every journal/conference varies): Numbered references, each independent of each other and containing full, standalone citation information. "Ibid.", "op. cit.", "---" and friends are basically never used. This may be because we mostly (like mathematics) also auto-generate our bibliographies, using BibTeX. In theory BibTeX can handle auto-inserting that sort of thing, but in practice nobody bothers to make stylesheets that do.
-Mark