OvidSP Find Citation
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Find Citation Tab

OvidSP's Find Citation tab lets you submit fielded data to retrieve specific journal article citations.
Follow these steps to make a search.

Find Citation Tab

Find Citation Tab
1 Select the Find Citation tab.
2 Fill in as many fields in the form as you can.
3 Click the Search button.
OvidSP will post the results to your search history.
Find Citation is available in all OvidSP databases except Books@Ovid.
OvidSP's Find Citation automatically truncates entries in the journal and author fields by default. Contact your site administrator to change the default

Using Find Citation's Search Box

The Find Citation tab is an electronic form of text entry search boxes that help you find known article citations.

OvidSP restricts its retrieval only to those citations that satisfy the criteria entered in the search box(es).

 Restricts retrieval to citations that contain the term(s) you enter as part of the article's title.

bRestricts retrieval to citations that matches the journal name you enter.

 Restricts retrieval to citations that matches the author's surname you enter.

 Restricts retrieval to only those records that matches the volume you enter.

Find Citation Entry Form
Find Citation Search Box

 Restricts retrieval to only those records that matches the issue number you enter.

Restricts retrieval to only those records for which the start page of the article matches the number you enter.

Restricts retrieval to only those records of journals whose publication year matches your entry.

Number that identifies a specific issue of a specific journal.

Truncation is available in all Find Citation fields. Type fewer than four characters followed by the $ symbol to increase the scope of your search in a field. For example, type ang$ into the Title field, and OvidSP retrieves citations with titles that contain the terms Angola, angiostrongylus, angiogenesis, and so on.

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