经外语系讨论决定，英语专业毕业论文格式文中引用和参考书目格式参照广东外语外贸大学《现代外语》的格式：
a. 文内夹注的文献放在括号内，作者名与年份之间空一格、不加逗号，如
(chomsky 1991)、(wilson 1991: 28-80)、(adams 1990; bates & macwhinney 1982, 1989; miao, chen & ying 1984)、(王力 1982, 赵元任 1979);
三个作者的，第一次出现全部列出，第二次则用et al.，如(miao et al. 1984);三个以上作者的，全部用et al.，如(caselli et al. 1995)。
b. 文尾参考文献部分不要包括文中没有引用到的文献，但应将引用到的文献全部列出，不要遗漏。(有争议)
c. 文献类型的字母标识：m为专著，c为论文集，n为报刊文章，j为期刊文章，p为未出版之会议论文，d为博士学位论文，r为报告，cp为计算机程序，其中论文集中的文章类型标识为a。外文文献在前，以作者姓氏的字母为序，书名采用斜体;中文在后，以作者姓氏的汉语拼音为序。 具体样例
1)来自专著的直接引语，作者姓名在文中已经出现 格式：出版年份：页码 例如：
rees(1986：241)said，“as key aspects of learning are not stable，but changeable，this opens the way for the role of the teacher as the pre-eminent mediator in the process”.
2)来自专著的直接引语，作者姓名在文中没有出现 格式：作者姓名 出版年份：页码。 例如：
“我们所懂得的只是实体存在的片段，可以肯定地说，一切具有重大意义的理论至多只能是部分地真实，但这不应作为放弃理论研究的借口”(chomsky 1979:48) 。
“one reason perhaps is that the chinese audience are more familiar with and receptive to western culture than the average english readers is to chinese culture”(fung 1995:71).
3)如果引述的内容为大段原文(超过四行)，所引原文左边双倍缩进(即8个字符)，右边与上下文对齐。 引文一般用冒号引出，引文不加引号。
例如：
he is aware of the politics of his choice and that english is not the natural medium for his social novel. he describes his process of creation thus:
i found, while writing spontaneously, that i was always translating
dialogue from the original punjabi into english. the way in which my mother said something in the dialect of central punjabi could not have been expressed in any other way except in an almost literal translation, which might carry over the sound and the sense of the original speech. i also found, that i was dreaming or thinking or brooding over two-thirds of the prose narrative in punjabi, or n hindustani and only one-third in the english language. this happened usually while i was writing stories and novels. (anand 1979:36)
注意上述例子中句号与括号的相应位置。
4)来自某篇文章的直接引语，作者姓名在文中没有出现 格式：作者姓名(英文只注姓) 出版年月 例如：
“everything rests on the notion that there is such a thing as‘just’words—but there isn’t.” (baston 1972)
5)来自专著的间接引语，作者的姓名在文中已经提到 格式：出版年份：引文页码 例如：
according to alun rees(1986:234)，the writers focus on the unique contribution that each individual learner brings to the learning situation. 6)来自专著的间接引语，作者的姓名在文中没有提到 格式： 作者姓名 出版年份;引文页码 例如：
it may be true that in the appreciation of medieval art the attitude of the observer is of primary importance(robertson 1987:136).
注：如所述观点可直接从原文找到，用(c.f.: robertson 1987:136) 7)提到某人的观点(没有提到姓名) 格式：作者姓名，发表年份 例如：
this point has been argued before (frye 1998).
a number of studies do not find texts with long series of terms which derive from a single semantic field (thompson 1985; francis 1989/1990).