Reference citation and the factors influencing the citation

This paper analyzes the functions,roles,sources of the references and the citation motives.We hope that the authors and editors have a comprehensive and reasonable understanding of the references and can rationally cite the references.At the same time we also hope that the science editors do more researches on the principles and norms of reference description.The further standardization of references will promote the enhancement of the overall quality of Chinese sci-tech papers.