D Language Citation

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 18/11/13 14:15, Russel Winder wrote:
> The very worst thing for me in terms of citation is ones like (personal
> communication, 1984). I banned that one.

Personally I do think there's a value to that, simply as a means of giving 
credit to someone who contributed an idea or unpublished result that turned out 
to be fruitful but didn't have enough involvement in the work to really count as 
an author.  Though I favour the solution journals like Nature came up with, 
which is to have that citation in the text but not the reference list, like this 
(A. N. Other, personal communication) and not like this [1]

    [1] S. B. D. Else, personal communication.

> Citations are to archived material that has a 99.999999% chance of being
> accessible in 15 years time

There's a certain irony in the fact that, given the constraints of print 
publication, various books and journal articles are now in many ways much _less_ 
accessible than supposedly ephemeral URLs.