If you want to help the reader as little as possible, imitate Krantz's hypothetical example of a minimalistic bibliography entry: ``Machedon, 1988.'' Readers m

If you want to help the reader as little as possible, imitate Krantz's hypothetical example of a minimalistic bibliography entry: ``Machedon, 1988.'' Readers may complain. In response, point out that the reader can easily find the cited work given a tiny amount of information, in this age of Google and CiteSeer and MathSciNet and the Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. For example, those of us with MathSciNet access can do a search for machedon and 1988 and find details of two papers by Machedon in 1988; presumably the reader of Krantz's hypothetical citation can figure out which paper is the right one. (Bernstein, 2004)