GB/T 7714 Reference format specification

Directory

• 1. Document type identification
• 2. Example of description format
  • 2.1 Journal Article
  • 2.2 Conference Paper
  • 2.3 Dissertation
• 3. BibLaTeX configuration
  • 3.1 Use national standard style
  • 3.2 BibTeX style
• 4. Frequently Asked Questions
  • 4.1 Author name format
  • 4.2 Multi-author processing
  • 4.3 DOI Requirements
  • 4.4 Page number format
• 5. GB/T 7714-2025 key points and transition guidance

This document only covers the National Standard description rules (sections 1-4 are based on the 2015 version, and section 5 is the transition guide for the 2025 version). Chart numbers, chapter title fonts, etc. belong to the school-level typesetting convention (each school determines it, not the national standard content), Moved to ../../templates/generic.md; when template is known Read instead templates/thuthesis.md / templates/pkuthss.md.

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1. Document type identification

Type	Identity	Example
General books	M	[1] Author. Book title [M]. Place of publication: Publisher, year.
Journal article	J	[2] Author. Title[J]. Journal title, year, volume (issue): page number.
Dissertation	D	[3] Author. Title [D]. City: School, Year.
Conference Paper	C	[4] Author. Title [C]//Conference Name. City, Year: Page Number.
Patent	P	[5] Inventor. Patent name [P]. Country: Patent number, date.
Electronic literature	EB/OL	[6] Author. Title [EB/OL]. (Published date) [Citation date]. URL.
Standard	S	[7] Standard name [S]. Standard number, year.
Report	R	[8] Author. Report name[R]. Institution, year.

2. Example of description format

2.1 Journal Articles

@article{example_journal,
  author = {张三 and 李四 and 王五},
  title = {深度学习在图像分类中的应用研究},
  journal = {计算机学报},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {46},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1--15},
  doi = {10.11897/SP.J.1016.2023.00001},
}

2.2 Conference Papers

@inproceedings{example_conf,
  author = {Smith, John and Johnson, Mary},
  title = {A Novel Approach to Object Detection},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CVPR},
  year = {2023},
  pages = {1234--1243},
  address = {Vancouver, Canada},
}

2.3 Dissertation

@phdthesis{example_thesis,
  author = {张三},
  title = {基于深度学习的图像识别算法研究},
  school = {清华大学},
  year = {2023},
  address = {北京},
}

3. BibLaTeX configuration

3.1 Use national standard style

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=gb7714-2015]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

% 文档末尾
\printbibliography[title=参考文献]

3.2 BibTeX style

\bibliographystyle{gbt7714-numerical}  % 数字编号
% 或
\bibliographystyle{gbt7714-author-year}  % 作者-年份

\bibliography{refs}

4. Frequently Asked Questions

4.1 Author name format

• Chinese: Last name first, first name last, no punctuation
• English: surname, first name abbreviation. or surname, first name

4.2 Multi-author processing

• 3 persons and below: list all
• 4 people and above: first 3 people + "et al." or "et al."

4.3 DOI requirements

• It is recommended to add a DOI (it must be described if there is a DOI)
• Format: doi = {10.xxxx/xxxxx}

4.4 Page number format

• Use hyphens: 1--15 (double dash)
• Do not use wavy lines or single horizontal lines

5. GB/T 7714-2025 Key Points and Transition Period Suggestions

Fact check date: 2026-06.

Timeline: GB/T 7714-2025 "Rules for Description of Information and Document References" was released on 2025-12-02. Implemented on 2026-07-01, fully replacing GB/T 7714-2015.

Main differences from the 2015 version:

Change Points	2015 Edition	2025 Edition
Preprint	No special type	Added preprint description type
Dataset	No special type	Newly added data set (dataset) description type
Description symbols	Inconsistent usage of some symbols	Uniform rules for description symbols
Access date	Electronic resources are all cited with citation dates	Non-online documents no longer require an access date (online resources still require)
Personally responsible persons	The rules for recording names are stricter	The rules for recording personal responsible persons have been adjusted (subject to the original text of the standard)

Toolchain Status: biblatex-gb7714-2015 series of styles is still the de facto standard; the community has gb7714-2025 style implementation (LaTeX Studio biblatex-gb7714-2025 beta), not yet fully stable. Until school templates are upgraded, it is generally still accepted to use the 2015 style.

Transition period suggestions:

• Defense/submission before 2026-07-01: Continue to follow the 2015 version (sections 1-4 of this document).
• Defense/submission for review after 2026-07-01: First confirm whether the school’s graduate school/library has switched to the new national standard, Then decide the style; verify_bib.py of this skill supports --standard gb7714-2025 checking according to the new national standard differences.
• Papers that cite arXiv preprints or public data sets should be described in the new type after switching to the 2025 version.