Reference is an important constitutive part of research paper in college journals. All the 11 indicators of journal of Inner Mongolia agricultural university( natural science edition)( JIMAU) in 2014,including total number of publishehed papers,total number of references,average reference number per paper,self- cited rate and citation timeliness,are collected and calculated.Longitudinally,these indicators are compared. with the related date of JIMAU from 2006 to 2010. On the transverse,these date are compar...