Abstract: Aiming at the status quo and existing problems of research notes applied in scientific scholarly journals, it is presented that correct understanding and scientific evaluation of research notes as a style type and scientific results published through research notes should be stressed. After comprehensive analyses of style characteristics, roles and formatting rules of research notes, the characteristics and writing norms of research notes used in scientific scholarly journals were concluded. Research notes were recommended to be fully used for rapid and timely publication of new research achievements in scientific scholarly journals.