Sir

I read the report in Nature with great excitement. At the 1999 Nature Conference on Citation Formats all scientific journals had agreed to use one of three citation formats from 1 January 2000. This was a transition agreement until 1 January 2010 when a single format would be adopted.

Sadly, I awoke from my dream to face another day of formatting my manuscript to the appropriate citation style, and daydreamed of how simple life could be.