Abstract: The textnote is one kind of our Chiness traditional literature annotations.The connotation of textnote is becoming extended with the development of edit publication printing industry,which is convenient to the writing of different literatures,such as books,articles etc..With the spread of Data Norm for Retrieval and Evaluation of Chinese Academic Journal（CD） at the end of last century,the "textnote"was given up,which was inconvenient to the academic thesis,especially to the writing of social science academic thesis about ancient books.After the issue of Edit Norm for China University Social Science Journal and Regulation for Reference Literature Bibliography after the Text,some problems are appearing gradually.We should research the meaning and value of the textnote in the reference literature indexing energetically,hence make it play the special role in the process of standardization,normalization and internationalization of our Chinese academic journals by the compaction and improvement of the textnote and the unification and combination of the reference literature.