Mark Ryan wrote:
On 06/09/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
wrote:
So why not just use ''ibid.'' of
''op. cit.'' as appropriate?
Ec
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