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This citation style is so distracting. Everyone should just use Chicago style [1] from now on. Map a subtle little number to a footnote that I can read at my leisure.

[1] source-author, year; another-source-author, year; maybe my own ramblings; keep this verbose crap out of the text so I can better read/skim it.

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In a dreamland, all papers are digitized; everyone can use inline hyperlinks as citation; and all URLs are archived for stable public access.

Some sites I've seen have a habit of following any outside link with an archive version of that same link (typically either the wayback machine or archive.today).

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