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.
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Dean, B. Citation heaven. Nature 395, 9 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/25587
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