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WORKING WITH CITATIONS

If you just have the bibliographic information (citation) for an article or book you would like to create a link to, there are several steps to follow to determine how you can do this. If you KNOW the database you used to find the citation, the best thing to do is to go back to that database and bring the item up for display, and work with the other Durable Links pages to create the link.

If you don't know what database you used, you will need to backtrack and figure out which one holds the text you want to link to.



tilde.gif Journal article citation:
"The Politics of Food: Gender, Family, Community and Collective Feeding in South Wales in the General Strike and Miners’ Lockout of 1926." Twentieth Century British History. 18, no. 1 (2007): 54-77.



TRACKING AN ARTICLE CITATION

To "track" and article citation, you will need at least two elements of the citation:

  1. First and foremost, you need to know the source of the article. This means you must know what magazine, newspaper, or journal the article was published in. The article source is also known as the publication title. In the journal article citation example at the top, of this page, the source is the

    Twentieth Century British History.

    If you don't know the source of your article, it will be much more difficult (perhaps even impossible) to track.


  2. Secondly, you should also at least one of the following:
    • the author of the article,
    • the title of the article, or
    • the date of the article's publication (or the volume number of the publication issue).


In the journal article citation example above, there is no author noted. The title of the article is, "The Politics of Food: Gender, Family, Community and Collective Feeding in South Wales in the General Strike and Miners’ Lockout of 1926." The article appeared in Volume 18, issue number 1, in the year 2007. The article appeared on pages 54-77.

LOCATING THE SOURCE OF YOUR ARTICLE

  • Once you have enough bibliographic information about the article you want, go to the Find e-Journal page, and type in the title of your magazine, newspaper, or journal. Then click on the GO button go.jpg.

  • A search on the Twentieth Century British History, brings this result.

  • Next click on either the linked source title on the page, or on the Find It button sfx.gif.
        This will bring up the Find It menu, which tells you which database holds the journal. In this case, the database is Highwire Press Oxford University Press Current. Underneath the title of the database, you should see a set of boxes where you can type in the:

        Year: 2007
        Volume: 18
        Issue: 1
        Starting page (of the article): 54

        You can fill these (or some of these) boxes in with the article information you already have. (Beware SOMETIMES this strategy doesn't work, and it's better to click on the GO button again.)In that case, you will have to manually click through the volumes and issues of the journal to locate the right issue to find the article.

  • After clicking on the GO button, we are taken directly to the article.

    Whenever possible, locate the DOI for the article. In this case, you can see it toward the top of the page. It reads:

    doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwl045

    ESTABLISHING THE LINK

    When you have the full text of the item up, you can begin working on creating the durable link to it. Here are directions for doing when you have a DOI number (top of page).

    If you cannot find a DOI number, you will need to follow whatever examples and instructions you find for other databases.




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