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This study investigated the citation errors of cited references
in journal articles of library and information science published
in Taiwan during 1991-1995. From 177 Chinese articles in ten
journals in the field, a total of 1770 (45 unverified and
unpublished citations were excluded) cited references were
obtained for citation analysis. These data were analyzed on the
basis of distribution frequency and chi-square in SPSS for
Windows also applied. The results of this study indicate that
all the ten journalspresent relatively high citation error ratio
of 57.8%; and its distributions demonstrate the following
characteristics. The journals published annually show the
highest ratio of 57.8%; those journals with 51-60 citations
illustrate the highest ratio of 67.4%; the ratio of 67.6% is the
highest for citation age more than 21 years; the ratio of 65.7%
is the highest to cite English articles; conference papers were
cited with the highest errors ratio of 88.2%. In addition, five
factors(journal title, citation number, citation age, language
and document type of the cited papers) show significant relation
error ratio; while there is no significant relation between
publication frequency and citation error ratio. The highest
percentage of errors appears in issue number for cited journal
articles(43.6%); in page number for both cited books(24.5%) and
thesis(50.5); in editor for cited book chapters(44.4%)
multivolume book chapters(35.7%), reference tools(50.0%)and
cited conference papers; and in title for cited newspaper
articles(50.0%). For cited multivolume books, errors appear
uniformly in volume, edition, publisher, and publication date.
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