The Author (AU) field identifies the person(s) responsible for the intellectual content of the document.

Using "smith$.au." as your search term retrieves "smith," "smithbattle," and "smither."

The Parent Book Author (BA) field is present in chapter records and indicates the author of the book in which the chapter appears.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Parent Book Title (BT) field is present in chapter records and indicates the title of the book in which the chapter appears.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Parent Book Title (BT) field is present in chapter records and indicates the title of the book in which the chapter appears.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Classification Code (CC) field contains a phrase and a 4-digit code that represent the general focus of the article.

Citations prior to 1994 are from Social Work Research and Abstracts Journal; citations after 1994 are from the Social Work Abstracts journal. Due to a change in the journals used for this database, there may be two codes for the same phrase. In order to make a distinction between pre-1994 articles and post-1994 articles, different classification codes were assigned. In many cases, such as with "special populations," two codes (4245 and 4340) refer to the same phrase.

All codes and phrases used in the Classification Code (CC) field are listed below. Note that some groups of codes (the 1300, 2300, 3300, and 4300 groups) are valid only for records dating from 1994. Some of these code phrases are duplicates; for most effective searching, use both codes.

For records that cite dissertations, the Dissertation Affiliation (DA) field contains the educational institute with which the author is affiliated, as well as the degree and the year granted.

The Editors (ED) field contains the name(s), of the editor of the original document.

The Heading Words (HW) field allows you to retrieve every subject heading that includes a particular word or exact phrase.

Searching "Great Britain" returns results with the phrase "Great Britain" in the heading. Searching "great" returns all entries with "great" in the heading, including entries with "Great Britain."

The ISBN (IB) field contains the International Standard Book Number as assigned by the publisher.

The Issue/Part (IP) field contains the issue, supplement, or part number.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number as assigned by the publisher. This number uniquely identifies the serial or journal and facilitates ordering.

Include the hyphen when searching for an ISSN.

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

Using "family$.jn." as your search term retrieves "Family Preservation Journal," "Family Practice Research Journal," and "Family Relations," among others.

The Journal Word (JX) field contains individual words from every journal name in SWAB.

This field is used to retrieve every occurrence of a journal that includes a particular word, such as "family." You can also search using a phrase such as "new england," which returns results with the phrase "new england" in the heading. Searching "new" returns all entries with "new" in the heading, including entries with "new england."

Stopwords such as "the" or "of" are not included. See the list of Stopwords for more information.

The Local Messages (LM) field contains messages created by the System Administrator to indicate information about journals held in your local library system.

The Pagination (PG) field contains the initial and final pages of a document.

Using "10$.pg." as your search term retrieves "10," "106," and "1057," among others.

The Place of Publication (PP) field contains the city, state, or country where the document was published.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Publication Type (PT) field identifies the general type of document. Publication Types are also available as limits.

Publication Types include:

• Journal
• Book
• Chapter

The Publisher Information (PU) field contains the name of the publisher of the document.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Subject Heading (SH) field contains controlled vocabulary terms that describe the content of the document.

Using "adoption$.sh." as your search term retrieves "adoptions," "adoption policy," and "Adoption Quarterly," among others.

The Source (SO) field contains bibliographic information for a document/journal including the journal name, volume number, issue number, number of pages, pagination, publisher, and year of publication.

Using "new england$.so." as your search term retrieves "New England Journal of Human Services," "New England Journal of Medicine."

The Series Title (ST) field contains the title of the series of a publication.

The Title (TI) field contains the full, original title of a document, article, dissertation affiliation, and/or publication in English.

For documents not originally written in English, the TI field contains the original or transliterated title. The translated title displays in the Translated Title (TT) field. The title sometimes includes notes, in brackets, about the article, such as an indication that it is a letter, editorial, or comment.

Using "famil$.ti." as your search term retrieves "family," "families," and "multiple-family," among others.

The Volume (VO) field contains the volume of the periodical that contains the article.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Update Code (UP) field is available in all records and contains the date the record was released into the database. It consists of 8 digits, in YYYYMMDD format, where YYYY is the release year, MM is the approximate release month, and DD is the approximate release day.

The Year of Publication (YR) field contains the year in which the original document was published.

The unlimited truncation symbol, $, retrieves records that contain the search term and all possible suffix variations of a root word. The example will retrieve records containing words such as rat, rats, rate, rationalize, ratify, etc.