I think I remember seeing some papers using symbolic names (i.e. [AuthorXXX2006]) instead of numeric indices (i.e. [1]), but obviously I'm too stupid to find a (more or less standard) biblatex-style that does this.
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4Do you use BibLaTeX or BibTeX? (your text says biblatex, the tag says bibtex).– CaramdirMar 6, 2011 at 17:53
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The natbib package for BibTeX provides many citation styles, including one that uses author's names.
In particular, using natbib you can cite a paper like in "Miller et al. (2003) showed …", that is, you can use references like nouns. This leads to much more readable citations compared to classic styles, although at the expense of some space which might be too valuable in academic papers.
I'm not familiar with BibLaTeX so I don't know about the availability of natbib there.
answered Mar 6, 2011 at 19:02
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1There are some
natbib-like commands, see section 3.6.9 of thebiblatexmanual, but I think biblatex-apa would be appropriate for the example you gave in your 2nd paragraph.– chlMar 7, 2011 at 9:46