Just like confirmation, there are certain rules to follow in the reference section.
First of all, only the published influential references are listed. Try not to quote unpublished data, abstracts, papers or other indirect materials.
If you really need to quote such materials, you can mark them in brackets or in the text with footnotes, as some journals allow.
Papers that have been hired and will be published can be cited, but the name of the journal where the papers are published should be marked as "being published" or "being published soon".
Secondly, before submitting a manuscript, we should carefully check the reference part against the original source of the cited document. After the submission is accepted, it is best to check the proof again. Experienced librarians know that the biggest mistake in a paper is the reference.
Also remember, when checking, make sure that the documents cited in the text of the paper are indeed listed in the reference section, and also make sure that the articles listed in the reference section are indeed cited in the text.
Secondly, the format of references.
The citation formats of various journals vary greatly. Someone consulted 52 sci-tech periodicals and found that they used 33 different reference formats (M.O'Connor, br. Med.J.1[6104]: 31,1978).
Some journals will give the full names of the cited documents, while others will not; Some journals require papers to give the page number range of cited documents, while others only require the page number of the first page of cited documents. A clever author will collect all the relevant items of the cited literature, so that he has all the necessary information when writing a paper.
It is easy to delete and edit existing information; However, it is very difficult to search more than 20 papers again to fill in the titles and page numbers of references. Even if you know that journals to be submitted usually adopt a simplified reference format (for example, no title is given), it is best to make a complete record of all cited references.