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Re:The Art of LaTeX: Advice for Typesetting Beautiful, Delig... by bee_rider on Sunday January 08, 2023 @02:57PM (#34302466)
If they make it into the wild, who cares if they are fully correct? The rules for a “fully correct” bibliography are too strict anyway. DOI or URL? Who cares? The reader is just going to search for the title anyway. As long as it doesn’t bounce off the publisher it is fine (which, it must not be bouncing off the publishers if it makes it into the wild).
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Re:The Art of LaTeX: Advice for Typesetting Beautiful, Delig... by generationP on Sunday January 08, 2023 @05:01PM (#34303660)
Googling the title works for reasonably new papers. Not so good for textbooks, old papers (titles used to be a lot less expressive 50 years ago), conference proceedings (often not indexed by article anywhere, and the name of the volume can be ambiguous), grey literature like lecture notes (a URL would allow you to use the Wayback Machine).

Also, don't count on authors to get the title right.

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