From 6330aaaad88b0b6900c0fc1cc08499b47f04902e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Spencer Smith <smiths@mcmaster.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:44:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update README in BlankProjectTemplate reference folder to
 reflect ref naming convention

---
 BlankProjectTemplate/ReferenceMaterial/README.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/BlankProjectTemplate/ReferenceMaterial/README.md b/BlankProjectTemplate/ReferenceMaterial/README.md
index 0a1eeca..3df1762 100644
--- a/BlankProjectTemplate/ReferenceMaterial/README.md
+++ b/BlankProjectTemplate/ReferenceMaterial/README.md
@@ -3,3 +3,9 @@
 This folder holds information and resources of interest for the project.  This
 is intended to be a convenient location for project members to access
 support material for the project.
+
+References are named using the Nat Bib convention.  That is, the citation name,
+and the corresponding file name should be in the format AuthorYear.  If there is
+two author's the name should be Author1Author2Year.  For more than two authors,
+the name should be Author1EtAlYear.  In the preceding text, Author, Author1 and
+Author2 are the last names of the authors.
-- 
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