Best reference list ever.

[mandolin]

So while slogging through papers for my group research paper, I read the first item in a reference list that made me laugh out loud:

Ivan Marc Author. "Some related article I wrote." Some Fine Journal, 99(7): 1-100, January 1999.

This was in a published paper for an international conference. The very first item.

I don't know which would be funnier: if that ref got in there by accident and they totally missed it or if that was a genuine reference.

Heh.

Comments

[marag.livejournal.com]

Ha! It's part of the template for the conference proceedings, I'll bet.

Personally, when I write templates like that, I like to use Mickey Mouse, Bruce Wayne, Lois Lane...

[jennies.livejournal.com]

I cast my vote in favor of "it was late and the manuscript was due in the morning and the editor had abandoned by their staff and simply decided they felt like it."


This is one of the reasons Hood's 2002 yearbooks is as secretly awesome as it is. Two a.m., soda, pizza, and an exhausted editor (and assistant) makes for some interesting entries. ^_^

..."Gotta love those luminaries."