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Links make the paper harder to read, and often you will not be able to use the links to directly access the source anyway.
by fl0id 4y ago
Links make the paper harder to read, and often you will not be able to use the links to directly access the source anyway.
- Smithalicious 4y ago> Links make the paper harder to read Do they? There is no law that mandates that links are blue and underlined. > often you will not be able to use the links to directly access the source anyway. This is true and I consider it a tragedy.
- fl0id 4y agoThey make a whole footnote much longer. Even when not blue and underlined.
- blep_ 4y agoThe link text doesn't have to be the whole URL. <a href="http://example.com/very-long-id?garbage-amount=2KB">J http://example.com/very-long-id?garbage-amount=2KB">J. Scienceperson, 2022</a> or the equivalent in your document format will do.
- bee_rider 4y agoWhat footnote? This seems very format-specific.
- tomrod 4y agoI disagree. Links in the bibliography do not make the paper harder to read. The rents from locking away research under foolhardy copyright must be removed, I agree on that point. Zotero solves the first problem way better than Endnote, as an aside.
- fl0id 4y agoAnd only having biliography/endnotes is annoying. If I want to check sth, I do not want to scroll all the way to the end first, so footnotes ftw. And for those, having long extra things in them like links is annoying. Though admittedly of course this depends on personal preferences and discipline.
- sdenton4 4y agoC'mon... It's not that hard. Link the text to the references section with the full citation, and include a link in the reference to look it up by the arxiv or by doi. If the link doesn't work, the citation should be enough to recover the text, assuming that the civilization hasn't collapsed.
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