Today I was entering an article into BibTeX about an NMR quantum computing experiment. The article entry was published in May and has the BibTeX entry
@article{Negreverge:06a,
title={Benchmarking Quantum Control Methods on a 12-Qubit System},
author={C. Negrevergne and T. S. Mahesh and C. A. Ryan and M. Ditty and F. Cyr-Racine and W. Power and N. Boulant and T. Havel and D. G. Cory and R. Laflamme},
journal=prl,
volume=96,
pages=170501,
year=2006
}
Okay, what’s so interesting about this? Well suppose that you cite this article in a LaTeX article using the alphabetical labeling scheme favored by computer scientists. What does the citation look like? It looks like [NMR+06]! Awesome.