Phillip Helbig wrote: > Although I guess there is no reason to REQUIRE a journal to support > bibliographies generated by BibTeX, it seems a sensible thing to do, > since in practice hand-coded \bibitems will not be perfect. Of course, Requiring BibTeX? At least in Mathematics where the speed of publication and the pool of potential references for a given topic are relatively low, BibTeX can be quite an obstruction. Especially in the case of several authors collaborating via e-mail, and each author being involved in several disjoint collaborations, I don't know how to efficiently use bibtex other than having a separate bibliography database for each paper (which directly contradicts the goal of bibtex...) Writing a bibliography is trivial compared to every other aspect in writing a paper, so let's leave it that way. Marcel