• gerikson@awful.systemsOP
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    8 months ago

    Meta Wiki question, are “bare” citations (no hyperlinks) acceptable in the reference section? It’s not too hard to find this paper just based on author’s last name and year in this case, but in others it might be harder.

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      8 months ago

      yeah, absolutely. Some editors find it a bit lazy and annoying, but it’s still a vast improvement over no reference. In fact there are bots that will attempt to turn URLs into nicely formatted references.