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10-worst-citation-rules The 10 Worst citation Rules
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# Any difference for terms (e.g. ibid) for male and female authors, or multiple authors

# Difference between pagination by issue and by year

# Terms like "eds." depend on the language the item has

# DOIs or URLs are followed by a point

# Noncommon abbreviations of names, e.g. Th. for Thomas

#Alphanumerical abbreviations as citations, following hard-to-grasp rules (SmMa92) (e.g. AMS)

#Different treatment of print journal articles depending on whether they're cited from the print copy or it's digital version on JSTOR or the publisher's webpage (looking at you, MLA)

#Abbreviated Journal titles which follow a non-ISO list of abbreviations which is copyrighted (yes, that would be ACS)

# Legal styles (should I say more?;)

# Using idem or similar terms for repetition within the same reference

Maybe:

# Styles with endnotes (not footnotes)  [I actually disagree with this; for works of popular history of science  that still want to follow academic standards, endnotes are a good  solution]  --> I had to do once an endnote style, which was capturing  author-date in the endnotes and the rest in the bibliography, which  means a  lot of referencing around...