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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

It's not like these are written on literal paper. It's the 21st century, There's no reason to save space in digital documents when you can just format them differently.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Yeah I imagine they could have some sort of click to expand functionality

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

~~Literally even a spot bumped out on the end where they list everyone, at the very end of the paper, would be infinitely better than "et Al"~~

Uhhhhhh

Yeah I have no defense for this other than having a dumb moment.

Carry on... ^please^

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

That's what bibliography is. It's already like that, or am I missing something?

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