It is inevitable to involve literature in psychology research and writing psychology papers. Researchers usually read more literature, and the literature that is actually quoted in the paper is relatively limited. The references quoted in the paper should be described and listed as references. The references can explain the influence of the author's research and the field in which his research has made contributions.

Academic papers, in a sense, are the author's argument and promotion of their own views, trying to let readers understand and accept such views. Whether the reader accepts the author's opinion, if accepted, and to what extent it is accepted depends on the author's argumentation process (and also depends on the academic literacy of the reader), especially the quality of evidence provided by the author.

Besides the statistical evidence of the result part, the author should prove and support his own opinions or practices through the references in the introduction, discussion and method of the paper. For example, in the introduction, the literature can provide a background for the author to ask questions; In the method part, the literature can provide the basis for the research technology adopted by the author; In the discussion part, the literature can provide support for the author's theoretical discussion. Therefore, the academic papers of psychology cannot be separated from literature.

Literature can be divided into learning literature and reference literature. Generally speaking of literature, there are two meanings. For the literature in the paper, it refers to the reference literature basically, in Chinese, it is called reference. Many of the literature studied has not been a reference.

Some authoritative review papers, in addition to the references, will recommend reading materials. Such literature can not be quoted in the paper, which is recommended by the author for the basic role and significance of learning the corresponding topics.

The reference documents of English papers, the page numbers presented in the list, are the starting and ending pages of the documents, not the specific pages. This is probably to prevent the users from reading the contents of the corresponding pages only, and the problem of breaking the text and taking the meaning out of the text. Only electronic edition of journal papers, with a special number, no continuous page number of traditional journals. In recent years, psychology English journal papers tend to have a number and no traditional consecutive page numbers.

There is a blog on science net, which introduces a typical case. Although it is not a psychological paper, it is of great educational significance. The case involves Einstein's abandoning cosmological constants. There is only one Einstein author in this paper. Many people have not seen the original text but they turn around the quotation, thus, a series of deformed quotation marks appear, which makes the article more than one s. B. Preuss author.

If a researcher puts forward a hypothetical view in an article, he / she refers to it in subsequent articles, and others cite it again, so this view will appear in the research literature. There is no doubt that this view still has no research basis or is it imaginary.

In fact, there are some such views in Psychology - widely spread and without evidence. For example, 80 percent of the information people get comes from vision; 80% of a person's success depends on EQ and 20% on IQ; The average human brain only uses 5%, Einstein only developed 10%; Human beings have 23 day physical rhythm, 28 day emotional rhythm and 33 day intelligence rhythm.

Therefore, psychological researchers should distinguish various views and examine whether there is scientific basis for them when they learn and quote literature, and they can not make mistakes.

According to the requirements of American Psychological Society Publication Manual, the literature quoted in the paper should be the corresponding literature in the view, theory or research directly affect their work. The cited literature provides the key background information for the paper, supports the views of the paper, or provides key definitions and information. At the same time, only the author has read and used the literature of his view. Generally speaking, for each important point of view, 1-2 most representative literatures are cited.

In writing, in order to not interrupt the thinking, we can write down all the way, but in the process of revision, the citation needs to be checked one by one. In order to avoid inadvertent plagiarism, it is also necessary to express it in its own discourse system according to the contents of the literature. Because the styles of each document are different, if it is simply quoted, it is easy to cause the situation that the expression is not integrated. The author of a paper is the subject, and other materials, including literature, are for their own service, which provide the basis and support. Then, the way of quoting documents is easy to be appropriate.

As for the list of references, there are requirements for journal papers and academic papers, and there are also some document management software. It is OK to do it according to the requirements - of course, it is still necessary to check one by one, especially the necessary items of the documents, which must be listed and listed correctly.

The national standard for reference format (gb-t-7714-2005) indicates that the rules of bibliography of reference documents can be coded in sequence or published by authors. For Chinese psychological papers, the author makes a description according to this national standard. For the psychological papers in English, the author can refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition).

There are some common problems in the use of documents in academic theses, which need to be paid attention to. For example:

First, excessive dependence on one or several documents, especially the same literature, frequently appears in the introduction. This situation shows that the author is very limited in the process of research and writing papers, and the literature that he finds and reads is very limited or too lazy to consult the first-hand literature. If such a document is wrong, the author will also mistake it again and again.

Second, excessive dependence on dissertation. From the list of references, we can see that some papers refer to a high proportion of academic theses. There may be many imperfections in the dissertation, which is not suitable for the main reference.

Third, the literature is piled up. For example, "the XXX (2010) study shows that, YYY (2012 findings..., zzz (2018) studies indicate that..." This is the result of the failure to integrate the literature and form its own expression system.

Fourth, the expression is mainly anti-objective. A paper, the author is the main, the author of the literature is the guest. Therefore, unless special emphasis is needed, the research in the form of XXX (2020) is not generally adopted. It is suggested that nine beauty technology can alleviate people's depression symptoms and improve happiness. Therefore, it should be written as "nine beauty technology can alleviate people's depression symptoms and improve happiness (XXX, 2020)".

In a word, literature is the basis for the author to carry out research and writing papers. Researchers need to study literature, and they should be more careful when quoting documents, and try to use and express the documents reasonably and properly.