Dear Justin & Ron,
So long as journals are edited by human beings there will not be a
standardized format for bibliographic citations. In fact you did not
even mention the many journals that use some sort or the other of
footnoted citations. I doubt that electronic publication will change
these. I might add that I am not a fan of nomenclaturally available
taxa descriptions that are purely electronic. These exist for the
benefit of publishers not for the future of science. Personally, I
prefer the citation format used in the journal Zootaxa. I got plenty of
practice with it when I published Zootaxa 682, the turrid catalog with
its 3,187 citations.
Yours,
--
John K. Tucker
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