最近,笔者了解到许多编辑部为了使期刊能被国际著名的检索系统所收录,特别是被美国的 SCI 所收录,纷纷按照这些检索系统提出的要求修改期刊论文基本内容的著录格式。其中,最大的修改是将中文参考文献全部翻译成英文。对于编辑部积极想办法冲出国门,走向世界的做法是无可非议的,但是,笔者认为,这一做法的结果对国内读者的使用着实带来了不便。众所周知,文后参考文献是科技人员获得相关文献信息的重要途径。将参考文献中的中文文献信息翻译成英文,特别是图书书名和期刊刊名,如果没有可供参照的标准英译名称,而是各个期刊编辑部根据各自的理解进行翻译,那么,即使是对《中国科学,A 辑》这样字词不多的刊名进行翻译,不同的编辑部也会有不同的译名,更何况名称较长的期刊和图书,翻译成英文名称后,恐怕读者就很难根据这 Recently, I learned that many editorial departments have revised the format of the basic content of journal articles in accordance with the requirements put forward by these retrieval systems in order to make the periodicals accessible to internationally renowned retrieval systems, especially those collected by the SCI in the United States. Among them, the biggest change is to translate all Chinese references into English. It is beyond reproach for the editors of the editorial department to find a way out and to go global. However, the author believes that the result of this approach has caused inconvenience to domestic readers. As we all know, after the text reference is an important way for scientists and technicians to obtain relevant literature information. The Chinese literature information in the reference is translated into English, especially the title of the book and the title of the journal. If there is no standard English name for reference, but each journal editorial department translates according to their own understanding, then even if it is For Chinese Science, Series A, there are not many words to translate. Different editorial departments will also have different translations. Not to mention longer names of periodicals and books, after translation into English names, I am afraid readers are very much Difficult according to this