1. Specific rules cited First, only 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 Try not to quote unpublished data, abstracts, papers or other indirect materials.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 accepted and will be published can be cited.
However, it is necessary to indicate "in progress" or "soon to be published" (soon to be published) after the name of the journal where the paper will be published. 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 most mistakes in the paper are references. 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.
2. The format of references There are great differences in the format of references cited by various journals. Someone looked up 52 sci-tech journals and found that they used 33 different reference formats (M.O'Connor, br. Medical journal 1: 3 1, 1978). Some journals will give the full names of the cited documents.
Some don't; 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. This approach is desirable for the following reasons.
(1) The currently selected contributing journal may refuse to employ this contribution, and the paper may be revised and submitted to other journals (the requirements of this journal are likely to be different from those of previous contributing journals); (2) These references are likely to be used again when writing scientific papers, critical papers or books in the future.
However, many types of writing often need to refer to the complete entries of the file. Before submitting a paper to a journal, it is best to check the reference format of the paper against the description of the author in the journal. If the format of the references in the submission is quite different from the format required by the journal, the editors and reviewers of the journal may think that the submission was rejected by other journals before being forwarded.
You may also think that the author of the paper is careless and perfunctory. Although there are many citation formats, most journals still use one of the three commonly used formats. These three commonly used formats are: author's name and year format, alphanumeric format and citationorder format.
2. The format of1-director's name-publication year-author's name-publication year, also known as Harvard format, has been popular for many years, and many journals and books adopt this document citation format. One of the great advantages of this format is that it is convenient for the author. Because the references are not numbered, the author can add or delete references at any time.
No matter how many revisions the author makes to the bibliography, the references in this paper, such as Smith and Jones (2005), are not affected. If you quote two papers published by Smith and Jones in 2005, you only need to make a simple change, that is, the first paper is labeled "SmithandJones(2005a)".
The label of the second article is "SmithandJones(2005b)". The disadvantage of this format is that it brings inconvenience to readers and publishers. When reading a paper, especially in the introduction, readers will find that there are a lot of references in a paragraph or even a sentence, which often leads readers to skip the labeling of multiple lines of references and continue reading the following text.
Citing several references in succession will interfere with readers' reading and understanding of the paper. The disadvantage of this format is obvious to publishers, that is, it increases the printing cost. If "Smith, Jones, andHigginbotham(2005)" can be replaced by a simple reference.
Then publishers can reduce printing costs. Because there are too many signed authors in some papers, many journals that use the format of author name-publication year reference adopt the rule of "equal" (and so on. ) This rule is used as follows: If the number of cited papers is only one or two, then the cited documents are marked as "Smith(2005)" or "SmithandJones(2005)".
If the cited paper has three authors, it should be marked as "Smith, Jones, andMcGillicuddy(2005)" when it is cited for the first time, and "Smith et al. (2005)" when it is cited in the paper later.
If the cited paper has four or more authors, it should be marked "Smith et al. (2005)" when it is first cited. In the reference section, some journals require that all authors of the literature be listed (no matter how many authors there are); Some journals only list the first authors of documents.