F.I.R.S.T. Tutorial

Chapter Five: Finding Articles in Magazines and Journals
In this chapter: Defining scholarly journals; understanding general and subject-specific databases; understanding citations; finding full text

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Interpreting search results

This is what the results of a search in EBSCO look like:

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This results list includes each article in the index that matched your search. Each article has its own citation.

A citation is essentially a reference to another? work which provides information for locating that work. Let's look at the parts of an article citation in greater detail.

Here's an example of a citation as it would appear in Academic Search Elite.

cittion

This citation contains all the information you need to locate the original article efficiently:


author
title of the article
title of the journal
date
volume/issue numbers
page numbers