Re: [dinosaur] Bird macroevolution and effect of long-term atmospheric changes (free pdf)

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> I forgot to fix the year (2019):
>
> Francisco Josà Serrano, Luis MarÃa Chiappe, Paul Palmqvist, Borja 
> Figueirido, John Long & Josà Luis Sanze (2019)
The effect of long-term atmospheric changes on the macroevolution of birds.
Gondwana Research 65: 86-96

Well, no, of course not 2019. If it's out now, it's out now, in 2018. If you 
want to be fully pedantic, you can cite it as "2018 (for 2019)", the same way 
that papers in December issues that only came out in January (or March) are 
sometimes cited as "1994 (for 1993)". But to just say "2019" is a plain lie.

The point of citing a year is not to provide an arbitrary number (like the 
DOI). The year of publication furnishes additional valuable information: when 
the paper first became citable, and how outdated it is ( = when the authors had 
to stop adding information from freshly published sources). To miscite the year 
of publication like this is to mislead on both accounts.

This particular paper even already has its permanent page numbers, indicating 
with full certainty that absolutely nothing in the paper will change in the 
future. I really can't see what anyone could have against citing it as "2018".

BTW, the last author is Sanz, not Sanze.