Abstract: Hydrocarbon source rock is the foundation of oil and gas exploration research. Proper evaluation of source rocks and divided favorable exploration area play an important role in decision making for further exploration. At present, geochemical methods ( Through analysis of the core samples it can provide accurate geochemical indicators about hydrocarbon source rock) still the main means for hy-drocarbon source rock studies, which is hard to obtain a continuous data on a single well owing to the limited samples and experimental fees. In addition, source rocks have a non-mean, and by making the data from geochemical analysis simply mean treatment will lead to the information from high-quality source rocks to be suppressed, which leads to the exploration precision is difficult to meet. Logging in-formation has a high vertical resolution and the data continuously, accurately the logging characteristics of hydrocarbon source rocks in coal measures all which provides a new approach in the correct evaluation for hydrocarbon source rocks. Coal source rock significantly different, according to the abundance of organic matter can be divided into shale, carbonaceous shale and coal, they have their own characteristics in response on the logs. Making full investigation for the existing research results which created by domestic and foreign scholars. And based on response characteristics of coal source rocks in the natural gamma, resistivity, acoustic time, neutron, density logging information, to carry out a qualitative identification and quantitative evaluation for hydrocarbon source rocks. Quantitative evalu-ation and qualitative identification methods of hydrocarbon source rocks in coal measures were introduced, such as crossplots method,ΔlogR method and the like. Received the data of tatal oxygen carbon by using the methods above, and achieved good results, which provide reference for comprehensive evaluation of hydrocarbon source rocks.