Citations

The most efficient way to find academic or scholarly journal articles is to use an online journal article database. There are many article databases available including ones that are focused on a particular subject area. Some online journal article databases only provide citations to the articles.

A citation (also called bibliographic citation) is a record of the basic information about an article, book or website, which is designed to give you the ability to retrieve the material. You provide citations at the ends of research papers, in order that others can find the original information as well.

The citations contained in bibliographies at the end of articles, books and websites can be a rich source of material for your research papers.