Known Journal Article Search
Research Skill Development includes learning to find journal articles as well as books for assignments and general reading. Sometimes you'll get references to articles from reading lists, at other times from bibliographies in books and other journals. In this section you'll learn to locate journal articles that you know about already. Later you'll have to learn to find journal articles on particular subjects using databases.
In this section you will learn how to:
identify citations to journal articles
find full journal titles from their abbreviations
find journal titles in the Library catalogue
find which volumes and issues of a journal are held by the Library
Journal article citation
One of the citations in the bibliography shown earlier referred to a journal article:
You can identify a journal article citation by:
the presence of volume number, issue number, and pagination
the absence of the word 'in', name of publisher or place of publication
There may be variations in the citation style:
the title of the article may be omitted (usually in the bibliographies of older journal articles or books)
the journal title may be abbreviated
the volume number may be in bold or underlined
the issue number may be omitted
To help you recognize these components of a journal article citation, you should to be familiar with the numbering and arrangement of journals.
Journals (also called periodicals, serials or magazines) are publications like Scientific American, Physiological reviews, or Brain which:
- are published frequently e.g. Scientific American is published monthly; Physiological reviews is published quarterly
- contain articles by different authors
- usually cover a particular subject area such as public health, or orthodontics or rheumatology
- sometimes have full text versions available online
As an example, below is part of a table of contents of the print format of the journal
Journal of Nutrition
for August 2006
The Journal of Nutrition
Official Publication of The American Society for Nutrition
August 2006
. Volume 136 . Number 8
Contents
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Articles
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RECENT ADVANCES IN NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES
Interplay of Stress and Physical Inactivity on Muscle Loss: Nutritional Countermeasures
Douglas Paddon-Jones |
2123 |
Recent Advances on Structure, Metabolism, and Function of Human Milk Oligosaccharides
Lars Bode |
2127 |
HISTORY OF NUTRITION
The Discovery of a Vitamin Role for Carnitine: The First 50 Years
George Wolf
|
2131 |
BIOCHEMICAL, MOLECULAR AND GENETIC MECHANISMS
Reduction of Cholesterol Absorption by Dietary Plant Sterols and Stanols in Mice
is Independent of the Abcg5/8 Transporter |
2135 |
Each month's (quarter's, etc.) publication of a particular journal is an issue
e.g. the August 2006 issue.
A year of issues is a volume, e.g. volume 136 is the 2006 volume.
Most journals number their volumes and issues.
The journal Journal of nutrition has published issues since 1928. The August 2006 issue of this journal is: volume 136 = 2006, issue 8 = August.
This may be written as 136(8) in citations.
Journal Title Abbreviations
Journal titles are often abbreviated in citations e.g. Sci Am rather than Scientific American. When searching for journal articles in the catalogue you sometimes need the full journal title not an abbreviation. If necessary you can find full titles in
Alkire, L. Periodical title abbreviations: By Abbreviation (vol. 1),
This is kept behind the Information desk.
However you should try The PubMed Journals Database
Click on the button below.
- Enter an abbreviated title.
- Click on Go, and get the full title.
Leave this new window for the ubMed Journals Database open until after you have finished the question on journal abbreviation, then
Click on File in the top left of the screen, and then on Close to close the window.
When you cite a journal article in an assignment always use the full title of the journal, not an abbreviation.
Summary
You should now know how to:
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