Purpose. In this study, we want to identify current possible causes for citing and referencing errors in scholarly literature to compare if something changed from the snapshot provided Sweetland in his 1989 paper. Design/methodology/approach. We analysed reference elements, i.e. bibliographic references, mentions, quotations, and respective in-text reference pointers, from 729 articles published in 147 journals across the 27 subject areas. Findings. The outcomes of our analysis pointed out that bibliographic errors have been perpetuated for decades and that their possible causes have increased, despite the encouraged use of technological facilities, i.e., the reference managers. Originality. As far as we know, our study is the best recent available analysis of errors in referencing and citing practices in the literature since Sweetland (1989).

翻译：目的。在本研究中，我们旨在识别当前学术文献中引用与参考文献错误的可能成因，并与Sweetland在1989年论文中提供的快照进行比较，以查看是否有所变化。设计/方法/方法。我们分析了来自27个学科领域147种期刊上发表的729篇论文中的参考文献要素，即书目参考文献、提及、引文以及相应的文内引用指针。研究发现。我们的分析结果表明，尽管鼓励使用技术工具（即参考文献管理器），但书目错误已持续数十年，且其可能成因有所增加。原创性。据我们所知，自Sweetland（1989）以来，本研究是近期对文献中引用与引证实践错误分析的最佳成果。