Periodical Articles:
A Guide to Evaluating, Obtaining, 
and Citing Periodical Articles

 

Locating Cited Articles in the Library

Not all articles which you find in article databases will be full text. Sometimes you will just be given a citation, like this one from InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

The citation gives you the following information in the following order:

Language and 'psychological race' = Article title
        Leopold de Saussure on French in Indochina = Article subtitle
John E. Joseph = Article's author
Language & Communication = Title of the journal in which the article appears
Jan 2000 = Date of publication
v20 = Volume of the journal in which the article appears
i1 = Issue of the journal in which the article appears
p29 = First page of the article's text within the journal
(25) = Length of the article (number of pages) [Note: length is not always correct as given in InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP]

 

Not all citations from article databases will give you this information in the same order, but all citations should include:

 

Self-Test

A Question:
Odell has been given a citation by a classmate which tells him the author and title of a journal article. Is this enough information for him to locate this article in the Library? Yes or No?

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