this paper selects 998 articles as its data sources from four chinese core journals in the field of library and information science from 2003 to 2007. some pertinent aspects of reference citations particularly from web resources are selected for a focused analysis and discussion. this includes primarily such items as the number of web citations, web citations per each article, the distribution of domain names of web citations and also certain aspects about the institutional and/or geographical affiliations of the author. the evolving situation of utilizing online networked academic information resources in china is the central thematic discussion of this study. the writing of this paper is augmented by the explicatory presentation of 3 graphic figures, 6 tables and 18 references.