How do I locate books and articles?

A citation is a reference to a magazine article, book, book chapter, or other publication.

To find these in Acorn, you need to search the title of the magazine or journal (not the article title), or the title of the book.

Citations to Articles
Citations to Books
Citations to Chapters in Books
 

Citations to Articles

Citations to journal or magazine articles will include some of the following:

• author
• article title
• journal or magazine title
• volume number of the journal or magazine
• date of publication
• section or column number (for newspaper citations)
   

Examples of Article Citations

Early, Francis H. "Staking her claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as transgressive woman warrior". Journal of Popular Culture. Bowling Green: Winter 2001. Vol. 35, Iss. 3; p. 11 (17 pages)

In Acorn, search: Journal of Popular Culture [Title Begins With]

"Formation of Isoprostane Bicylic Endoperoxides from the Autoxidation of Cholesteryl Arachidonate " Huiyong Yin, Christine M. Havrilla, Jason D. Morrow and Ned A. Porter, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 7745-7754.

In Acorn, search: Journal of the American Chemical Society [Title Begins With]

If the journal title is abbreviated, as in the above example, check Journal Abbreviation Sources for the full title, or consult a librarian.
 

Citations to Books

Citations to books will include the following:

• Author or editor of the book
• Title of Book
• Date of Publication
• Publisher and city of publication

Example of a Book Citation

Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2001.

In Acorn, search: Botany of Desire [Title Begins With]
 

Citations to Book Chapters

Citations to book chapters will also include the title of the chapter.
 

Examples of Book Chapter Citations

Tennant, Neil. "The future with cloning: On the possibility of serial immortality." In, Fetzer, James H. (Ed). (2002). Consciousness evolving. Advances in consciousness research. (pp. 223-237). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

In Acorn, search: Consciousness Evolving [Title Begins With]

Hillerman, Tony, "Building Without Blueprints." In Writing Mysteries, edited by Sue Grafton. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2001.

In Acorn, search: Writing Mysteries [Title Begins With]

 

Prepared for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to MIT Libraries for granting permission to modify and use their "Information Navigator" tutorial.