The Article Number (AR) consists of a fixed alphanumeric character string used in place of page numbers for electronic documents; it may also be used in addition to page numbers for printed documents. This field, when present, displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Author (AU) field contains up to 100 authors. The format for authors is last name followed by one or more initials: Smith JC or Smith J. If a single initial could not be transliterated with one letter, two or more letters may be used. Occasionally a name will include the full first name.

If there are more than 100 authors then only 99 are listed, followed by the indication "et al."

Enter the last name, or if it is a common name, enter the last name and first initial. If you are unsure of the spelling of the last name (Macdonald or Mcdonald), enter one version and then scroll through the list of names to find the other.

The Book Series (BT) field contains the book title of an individual issue of a source with the source type "Book Series." Book Series are publications that are published in a serial edition and are assigned ISSNs. Each individual book (issue) also has a separate ISBN number

The CODEN (CD) field contains a journal CODEN. Journal CODENS are 5-digit codes such as "AJDCA" which uniquely identify a journal title.

The Conference Information (CF) field contains supplementary information about a conference such as its location. This field usually displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

Individual words are indexed in the CF field; enter a single descriptive word such as japan.

The Country of Publication (CP) field contains the full name of the country in which a journal was published (such as United States of America). The country name is entered into the index as a phrase.

The Device Manufacturer Name (DM) field contains the full name of the manufacturer of a drug or device discussed in an article. Manufacturer names are listed in their brief form, for example, "Lilly" for "Eli Lilly." Enter the first few letters of a manufacturer name and you will be shown the index of names beginning with those letters. This field displays with the Device Trade Name (DV) field in the citation.

The Date of Publication (DP) field consists of the date of publication for a citation. This field usually displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

It is searchable in the format DD MMM YYYY, for example, 23 FEB 2002.

The Device Trade Name (DV) field contains the medical device trade names assigned to the records. This field displays with the Device Manufacture (DM) field in the citation.

The Embase Section Headings (EC) field contains both the section assignment numbers and headings that correspond to the Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals and Literature Indexes.

There are fifty-two codes indexed as three digits (001 through 052). To search this field, enter the desired code.

The Electronic ISSN (EN) field contains the electronic International Standard Serial Number (eISSN) for the journal in which the article was published. Each journal may have an ISSN, an eISSN, or both. However when there is only an eISSN available it is searchable in the ISSN index and displays in the Electronic ISSN field.

Like the ISSN, it appears as an 8-digit number, separated by a hyphen: 1029-0362.

Subheadings, or "link terms" are qualifiers added to EMTREE subject headings to refine their meaning. Terms such as "adverse drug reaction" or "drug toxicity", when combined with an EMTREE term, give a very precise idea of what an article covers.

The Floating Subheading (FS) field contains the 2-letter link terms, such as AN for drug analysis.

The ISBN (IB) field contains the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) for a book or monographic publication.

The Institution (IN) field contains the primary author's affiliation, which is usually the source for a reprint of the article. This information is not standardized and often contains abbreviations. Enter the single most descriptive word in an institution (harvard, not university). Consider both full spellings and abbreviations.

The Issue Part field (IP) contains the Issue and/or part for a particular volume of a journal. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for the journal in which an article was published. Each journal may have an ISSN, an eISSN, or both. However when there is only an eISSN available it is searchable in the ISSN index and displays in the Electronic ISSN (EN) field.

It appears as an 8-digit number, separated by a hyphen: 0028-4793.

The Journal Series (JI) field contains the issue title of an individual issue of a source with the source type of Journal.

The Journal Name (JN) field contains the full name of the journal in which an article was published.

Journal names are indexed as phrases; enter enough letters of the journal name to locate the name in the index, such as new engl for New England Journal of Medicine.

The Journal Word (JW) field contains individual words from every journal name in EMBiology.

The Language (LG) field contains the language(s) of publication of an article. The language name will appear in the index as a 3-letter code (such as fre for french) or as the full language name. The codes are usually, but not always, the first three letters of the language name.

For a spelled-out list of languages, refer to the Languages limit menu.

The Drug Manufacturer Name (MF) field contains the full name of the manufacturer of a drug or device discussed in an article. Manufacturer names are listed in their brief form, for example, Lilly for "Eli Lilly." Enter the first few letters of a manufacturer name and you will be shown the index of names beginning with those letters.

The Drug Manufacturer Name (MF) field will display in the Drug Trade Name and Manufacturer (TN) field.

The Molecular Sequence Number (MS) field contains an acronym for a source of molecular sequence data (for example, Genbank) and a sequence accession number documented by the source. Each acronym is preceded by a weighting of A or B in parentheses (which is also searchable). The weighting of A is assigned to the sequence numbers whose submission to a molecular sequence database is announced in the document indexed. The weighting of B is assigned to sequence numbers which are referred to, but not submitted by the document.

The Original Title (OT) field contains all non-English titles in the original language. If the original title was in a non-Roman alphabet, then the OT is transliterated.

Omit common articles when searching a foreign language: heure not l'heure.

The Publisher (PB) field includes the publisher name for a book or other non-journal publication. This field usually displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Page (PG) field consists of the inclusive pagination of a journal article. This field usually displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The first page on which an article appears is indexed in the Page field. Often a journal title combined with the beginning page number is enough to locate a citation.

The Publication Type (PT) field contains one of the following forms of literature indexed:

In addition, information is provided about the item type of the original document. The item type information is utilized from 1991 forward. Also, citations indicate if the original document was an article, conference paper, editorial, erratum, letter, note, review, or short survey.

To search Publication Types, enter the appropriate search term, such as short survey.pt.

The Number of References (RF) field contains the number of references that appear at the end of the document.

The CAS Registry Number (RN) field contains the Chemical Abstracts Service Registry name linked to the Chemical Abstracts Service number for a compound mentioned in an article. The CAS Registry Number is generated from drug and chemical names listed in EMTREE, Elsevier's Life Science Thesaurus.

Note that only the CAS Registry Number is searchable. It can be searched as "50 0 7 0".rn.

Search the Source Description (SD) to see where in the source the citation is located, including the Issue or Part (IP), Volume (VO), and Pagination (PG) fields.

The Subject Headings (SH) field contains the EMTREE Thesaurus terms used by EMBASE indexers to describe the content of an article.

EMTREE terms are organized in a hierarchy, or "tree" structure.

EMTREE terms are entered into the index as phrases and should be searched as they appear in the published EMTREE or in our Tree display. All EMTREE terms and associated terms are indexed in the SH field.

The Summary Language (SL) field contains the language(s) of the summaries (up to three languages) printed in the original document.

The summary language name appears in the index as a 3-letter code (such as fre) or as the full language name (french). Often, the codes are the first three letters of the summary language name.

The Title (TI) field contains the English language version of a title. For documents which are not written in English, the original or transliterated title appears in a separate field, Original Title (OT).

The title sometimes includes notes about the article such as an indication of language.

The Textword (TW) field is an alias for all of the fields in a database which contain text words and which are appropriate for a subject search.

The Textword field in EMBASE includes Title (TI), Abstract (AB), and Drug Trade Name (TN).

The Year of Publication (YR) field contains the year in which an article or monograph was published. The full year appears in the document and can be searched using a single 4-digit number. This field, when present, displays as part of the Source (SO) field.