Possibility to remove (not published) text before node reference titles

Sometimes I make sites that have both internal and external functionality. For example, I have a site that stores contacts, some of which are published so that they can be viewed publicly on the website and others that are not published so they can only be viewed internally.

This works great, but when I add a node reference field, it displays the text "(Not published)" before the title of the node if the node is not published. In many cases, it doesn't matter, but sometimes (when generating internal reports, for example) it does.

I can get around this by simply creating a relationship and adding a Node Title field, but it might be nice to have a feature that would remove this by itself (without the need to create a relationship that complicates the database query). As tagged above, this is a minor request.