How to Locate Articles: Using Citation Linker

If you are looking for an item in a print bibliography or from a database without the Find Text button, you can use Citation Linker to find the text.

Let's say you found this citation in an article you were reading:

In Citation Linker you would fill in the information you have:

You don't need to fill in every field, but the more information you provide, the more likely the Find Text system will be able to find the article.  The journal title, date, and volume number are the most important pieces of information.

Note: If you only know a cited page from the article, do not enter that page in the page number fields; the system matches on first and last page of the article only.  If you enter a page number that is not the first or last page, you may get an error message when the system attempts to link to the article.

After pressing the Find Text button, you will see your options for getting the article.  In this case, the text is found:

Click on the Go button to retrieve the text.

If the text is not found, continue down the Find Text options for searching FRANCIS and getting it through Williams ILL.