JL Journal Reference

j.appl.bact* in jl

cancer-gene-ther* in jl

The JL field contains the full or abbreviated name of the source journal. The journal name format is dependent on when the data was added to the database. Data added to the database prior to July, 2002 contains abbreviated journal titles; data added from July, 2002 onward contains full journal titles.

For best results, use the truncation symbol (*) to search for journal names. Truncation enables you to find variations of a term. For example, the search cancer-gene-ther* in jl retrieves records containing either Cancer Gene Therapy or Cancer Gene Ther in this field.

Alternatively, you can search for journal names in the Free Text Index (General Index in WebSPIRS). Or, if you know the journal ISSN, you can look up and search for the specific ISSN in the ISSN Field-Specific Index.