Asano M, Mikawa K, Nishina K, Maekawa N, Obara H
Department of Anaesthesiology, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.
Can J Anaesth. 1995 May;42(5 Pt 1):370-2. doi: 10.1007/BF03015478.
A previous study indicated that there were many citation errors in the Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia. After this report, editors of the Journal requested any contributors, whose papers were accepted for publication, to verify the accuracy of reference citation by including a photocopy of the first page of each reference. The present study examined if the accuracy of the reference list had improved. We compared citation errors between volumes of 1990 and 1994. One hundred references from each year's publication were randomly selected. After citations of nonjournal articles were excluded, the remaining 190 citations were carefully scrutinized. Authors' names, article title, journal title, volume number, page numbers, and year were examined in each selected reference. A reference was deemed correct if each element of the citation was identical to its source. Of the examined references, 48% and 22% contained one or more errors in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Errors in the title and author field of citation were most common in the either of the two years, occurring in about 70% of the references which contained some errors. Citation errors in Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia were considerably improved after the request to verify citation accuracy. Although this check-system probably contributes to the improvement of accuracy of reference citation, the rate of citation errors remains high. We believe that contributors' efforts will enhance the value of the journal.
此前一项研究表明，《加拿大麻醉学杂志》存在诸多引用错误。该报告发布后，该杂志编辑要求所有论文已被接受发表的投稿人，通过附上每份参考文献首页的复印件来核实参考文献引用的准确性。本研究调查了参考文献列表的准确性是否有所提高。我们比较了1990年和1994年各卷之间的引用错误情况。从每年发表的文献中随机选取100条参考文献。在排除非期刊文章的引用后，对剩下的190条引用进行了仔细审查。在每条选定的参考文献中，检查了作者姓名、文章标题、期刊标题、卷号、页码和年份。如果引用的每个元素与其来源一致，则该参考文献被视为正确。在所审查的参考文献中，1990年和1994年分别有48%和22%包含一个或多个错误。在这两年中的任何一年，引用的标题和作者字段中的错误最为常见，约70%有错误的参考文献中都出现了此类错误。在要求核实引用准确性后，《加拿大麻醉学杂志》的引用错误有了显著改善。尽管这种检查系统可能有助于提高参考文献引用的准确性，但引用错误率仍然很高。我们相信投稿人的努力将提升该杂志的价值。
