davvil
commented
6 years ago My personal style is "brown93:mathematics". Of course manually I select a "better word" (I think I have it as "brown93:MT"), but I don't think we want to include a text summarization module in bibsearch :-P
I don't have strong feelings for an alternative, but rather some guidelines:
- I prefer having one separator (and only one), I don't really like "brown1993mathematics" or "brown:1993:mathematics", but I don't have strong feelings for either : or _.
- I'd rather have single letter disambiguation, "brown1993:mathematics_machine" seems a bit cumbersome.
- I slightly prefer 2 digit years.
- I'm ambivalent about including etAl.
mjpost
We should have a discussion about the default key format.
Google Scholar seems to use last name, full year, and first word of the paper, e.g.,
brown1993mathematics. I've been using this for a while and am accustomed to it.Current bib search default is
brown93_mathematics. Collisions are handled by appending a letter after the year.I would like to argue for
brown:1993:mathematics, which I find nicely balances information and aesthetics.I would also like to suggest that we handled collisions by adding another word of the title.
Of course, this is all somewhat moot with the custom key format, but we should have a good default.