Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a major greenhouse gas (GHG) product of intensive agriculture. The application of nitrogen fertilizer can increase the N2O emissions, and the amount of N2O from fertilizers accounted for 25%-82% of the total soil N2O emissions. Therefore, in order to addressing the serious problems in the agricultural production, such as lower nitrogen fertilizer utilization ratio, increased N2O emissions and declined economic benefit caused by unreasonable nitrogen fertilizer application, a field experiment were conducted to study the effect of different nitrogen fertilizer application patterns on characteristics of N2O emissions and the economic benefit in a summer maize-winter wheat field. The 7 patterns of nitrogen application in the summer maize and winter wheat seasons were control (CK), farmer's nitrogen fertilization pattern (FN), recommended nitrogen fertilization pattern (RN), recommended N rate with dicyandiamide (RN+DCD), recommended N rate with nitrapyrin (RN+CP), recommended N rate with controlled-release fertilizer (RN+CR), recommended N rate with nanocarbon (RN+NC). The CK was without applications of nitrogen fertilizer. During summer maize and winter wheat seasons, the nitrogen fertilizer of FN treatment was 392 and 285 kg/hm2, and the nitrogen fertilizer of the recommended nitrogen treatments (RN, RN+DCD, RN+CP, RN+CR and RN+NC) were 300 and 225 kg/hm2 respectively. The N2O emission from soil was collected by static chamber method and the gas samples were determined by gas chromatography with Agilent7890.The total income obtained from the crop grain minus the cost of the fertilizer and other field management costs was recognized as net income. The results showed that, compared to the treatment of FN, the average N2O emission flux of recommended nitrogen treatments (RN, RN+DCD, RN+CP, RN+CR and RN+NC) were reduced by 29.2%-65.4% (P<0.05) and 26.9%-74.9% (P<0.05) during summer maize and winter wheat seasons respectively, and the total N2O emissions were decreased by 1.05-2.72 kg/hm2 (P<0.05) and 1.10-2.47 kg/hm2 (P<0.05), respectively. In the rotation season, the net income increased by 967.5-3887.0 Yuan/hm2 compared to that of FN treatment. Compared to the treatment of RN, the average N2O emission flux of the treatments of RN+DCD, RN+CP and RN+CR were decreased by 41.5% (P<0.05), 31.2% (P<0.05) and 5.8% respectively during the summer maize season, and those were decreased by 63.0% (P<0.05), 65.7% (P<0.05) and 25.4% respectively during the winter wheat season. In the rotation season, the total N2O emissions of RN+CP and RN+DCD were decreased by 52.5% (P<0.05) and 49.0% (P<0.05) respectively, and the net incomes of the two treatments were increased by 312.6 and 708.9 Yuan/hm2, respectively. The soil N2O phase emission of peak during the summer maize season appears in the three leaves period to jointing stage and huge bellbottom period to tasseling stage, but during the winter wheat season the soil N2O phase emission of peak appears during the stages of sowing time to seedling stage and the returning green stage to jointing stage. Considering the integrated effects of crop yields, N2O emissions and economic benefit, RN+DCD and RN+CP were recommended for nitrogen management practices which can gain rational crop yield, reasonable income and less negative climatic and environmental impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]