In recent days, there are many discussions on whether academic papers can be excluded from references on the Internet. The following is the author's general view on this issue.

The only function of references is to make it convenient for readers to read the article itself and to know the origin and development of the research issues of the paper (of course, in the research stage and the writing stage, literature review and references will also help the author to sort out his own research ideas and research significance). If the paper itself is sufficiently self-contained in terms of discussion, without writing references or quoting references, it is enough to make the problems it has studied clear enough, and at the same time, it does not involve the problems that may infringe other people's intellectual property rights and initiative rights, it is acceptable not to list references. In addition, there is another possibility: if it is too rigid to list references, it will lead to messy ideas and difficult to understand the core content of the paper, then it should be acceptable not to list references.

It's just that the academic papers that really achieve the above-mentioned goal that "the article itself is enough to form its own system without infringing other people's intellectual property rights and initiative rights, and too many references will lead to messy ideas and not easy to understand". Therefore, most of the time and in most cases, the references should be listed in detail as far as possible It is the most common practice and has become a common norm in the academic circle. Generally, it should be strictly observed (which is also one of the essential contents in learning academic writing). However, listing this common practice as a norm does not mean that the norm of listing references is absolutely untouchable (the reason has been mentioned before, because the real and only role of references is just for the convenience of readers to read and understand (of course, also for the convenience of the author to sort out his own research ideas and research significance) The problem of plagiarizing others' achievements or overstating the scope of one's own initiative can not be avoided with references. These two negative aspects may not be eliminated with references. Therefore, from the perspective of academic norms, the real untouchable norms of academic papers are: 1. Papers are not innovative, but claim to be innovative; 2. Although the knowledge involved in this paper is indeed innovative, the essence of the innovation is to deliberately plagiarize other people's ideas and achievements, but not to make enough statements and division, and to put the knowledge achievements that are not their own initiative Statement for their own initiative, or beyond the substantial contribution and substantial scope of their own achievements to make a big initiative statement.