First published in 1983, ”Chinese Studies” has become not only an important journal of the humanities locally, but also an internationally-renowned sinological periodical. This paper analyzes the citations used in the past 6 years (volumes 22-27, 2004-2009) of history articles published in ”Chinese Studies”. A quantitative analysis of the 4,293 different citations made in a total of 82 such articles offers an overall glimpse of the habits and features of citation use, and facilitates a better understanding of the content and development trends of research carried out in the field of history in recent years. The results of this study show that the history articles published in ”Chinese Studies” during this period feature extensive notes and citations, the largest number of which refer to ancient works, followed by recent books. Most citations refer to materials in Chinese, with half of these published in mainland China. Books published between 6 and 30 years ago are most frequently cited, indicating that materials are passing out of use very slowly. Cited materials mainly focus on the historical studies field, and although a wide range of books are used for reference, this research attempts to identify the 21 most cited periodicals, 29 most cited books, and 18 most cited modern authors. Authors' citations of their own works are not at all clear in ”Chinese Studies”, and although almost 60 percent of the works analyzed use self-citation, they represent a relatively low proportion of total citations.