The invention discloses a short-tail tension rivet and a riveting method thereof. The tension rivet consists of a rivet head, a rivet rod and a sleeve ring. The rivet rod is provided with a feed rod section, a ring groove section which is extruded and matched with the sleeve ring, and a short and thin ring groove section clamped by a riveting device collet from the front to the back. Compared to the prior tension rivet, a separating groove on the rear end of the tension rivet and a groove section tension rod are removed, so that the rivet rod is shortened and the material is saved by one third; when the rivet is riveted, the separating groove can not be broken; the riveting steps are reduced from the prior four steps to three steps, and the riveting is accelerated; and riveting can not cause impact, and the assembling place has no noise. If the prior same riveting device and the riveting stroke are adopted, the length of the ring groove section or a thread section can be lengthened correspondingly, so that rivets with the same specification can be applied to multiple riveting thicknesses, and the range of application is widen. The rear end of an inner hole of the sleeve ring for thread riveting is provided with a small section of screw thread; before the start of the riveting device, the sleeve ring is rotated manually and moved advance on the screw thread section, and positioned and sleeved on the screw thread section, so that when the riveting device is operated by operating staff for next step, the sleeve ring is not required to be held manually, and further the rivet is riveted relaxedly, conveniently and quickly. The screw thread and the groove riveting can be selected according to occasions.