He is saying that when you write "(Bovik, 1964)", it's very hard for him to interpret this as the style. Instead, he's imagining what Bovik could possibly have said on this subject.
Likewise when he reads "My favourite bibtex style is the 'alpha' style, which uses [Bov05]", his reaction is that the sentence is incomplete: "use" is a transitive verb!
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Date: 2007-01-19 06:11 am (UTC)Likewise when he reads "My favourite bibtex style is the 'alpha' style, which uses [Bov05]", his reaction is that the sentence is incomplete: "use" is a transitive verb!