At least you shall read the rules of writing each article per journal (TIME) then you have to write the article or to change its format for every journal. All these are time-wasting especially for scientists in the developed countries that have access to libraries and facilities for better use of their time. To me the reference format should be informative on the subject and citation of the article. I am not against the names of scientists, I am against the format that forgets subject of the articles referred. The subject indicates if an article is useful for your particular work, and sometimes informs you on a new interesting finding by itself and currently each journal has its own referencing format that is time-consuming.

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