Chinese dictionaries belong to reference books and are generally not included in references. Unless you are writing a paper on linguistics, you should consider including it. If you want to include other majors, it belongs to the category of works. References are generally divided into works and papers.

References According to the requirements of "China Academic Journals Retrieval and Evaluation Data Standard (Trial)" and "China University Social Science Journals Arrangement Standard", many publications distinguish between references and annotations, and define annotations as "words that further explain or supplement a certain content in the text", which are listed at the end of the article, separated from references or placed in the footer.

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Dictionaries belong to reference books.

The name of the first dictionary, Erya, defines the function of the dictionary. "Er" also means "near", "Ya" means "right" and "elegant in speech", that is, a standard language that conforms to the norms in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Erya means approaching and conforming to elegance, that is, explaining words and dialects in an elegant way to make them close to norms.

Types of dictionaries: Dictionaries can be divided into detailed dictionaries and specialized dictionaries.

1. Detailed dictionaries are comprehensive explanations of the form, sound and meaning of words, such as Xinhua Dictionary and Chinese Dictionary.

2. Special dictionaries, also known as specialized dictionaries, only explain one aspect of words, such as orthographic dictionaries, orthographic dictionaries, function dictionaries, and difficult dictionaries.

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