Medical papers generally need to cite references, the purpose of which is to provide readers with retrieval information, respect others or their previous scientific research achievements, and facilitate peers to conduct in-depth research. In practical work, it is found that the references of many manuscripts are not standardized and there are many mistakes. This paper summarizes and analyzes the problems existing in the references of medical papers.

1 disobeyed the rules and was misquoted.

There are strict regulations on the format and labeling of references, and medical journals generally use the improved Vancouver format to record references. In recent years, it has been found that some papers with high academic value have been delayed or refused to be published because of irregular description format or improper references. The main reasons are as follows: 1) The author's name is missing in the description, and it is clearly stipulated in the manuscript that all the top three authors of the reference are listed, with more than three. Wait? Words or corresponding foreign languages. In many submissions, it is found that only 1 author has finished writing before adding? Wait? Situation, due to other authors can not verify and delayed the timely publication; 2) The description items are incomplete, some papers lack titles (titles), and some lack publication names, years or volumes, issues and page numbers. 3) The reference serial number is not marked in this paper, which cannot prove the practical use of the reference; 4) Improper citation. Unpublished observation materials, internal communication materials and confidential information are not suitable for reference. Due to the lack of awareness and maturity of internal materials, their principles, arguments, arguments need to be revised, changed or enriched, and because of the small circulation and narrow readership, they cannot be consulted and cannot play a reference role [1].

2 Do not seek an answer, repeat the superposition.

The main manifestations are that the description and use of references do not correspond, and there are too many indexed references, which are large in scale and not fully used in the text; Or a lot of words are used, and there is no mark behind the words; Or it is used upside down, not in the order in which it appears, and so on. This is all caused by not carefully sorting out the references after writing the paper. Generally speaking, the number of references in papers should be controlled within 65,438+05, and there can be a little more comprehensive articles, but not more than 25 articles, with a clear citation purpose. In addition, the phenomenon of reusing the same article in reference records should also be paid attention to. Especially in review articles, the same document can be cited many times, but it doesn't have to be re-recorded every time, that is, no matter how many times it is cited, the citation can only occupy one place in the reference column.

3 years old, low credibility.

According to the principle of price index, relatively speaking, the more documents cited in recent five years, the higher the price index and the less outdated documents, which shows that the issues involved in this paper are closer to the current frontier topics. The farther away the experimental articles are, the lower their reference value may be, so it is generally required that 50% ~ 70% of the cited documents should be published in the last five years [2]. If the proportion of overdue documents is large, it means papers. If the issues involved in the paper are hot issues being studied at home and abroad at present, the citation rate of documents in recent five years should be high, which can reflect the author's understanding and mastery of peer research results. If it is found that the cited literature is really too old, the editor has the responsibility to advise the author to consult more recent literature, because the author may change his original understanding or conclusion after accepting the new literature. If the problem studied is really valuable, and it is difficult to find the relevant literature in the last five years, it is necessary to quote the literature five years ago or even decades ago. If you don't follow up the relevant literature during the whole research period, you may ignore some major problems that have been confirmed or solved by your peers in recent years, and still stay at your own level of understanding at the time of research. This shows the importance of consulting recent literature and recording it as much as possible. Some authors even think that the older the cited documents, the more reliable their research results, which is a misunderstanding.

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