Citing Articles
MLA Style Examples: - Prest, Julia. "Discourse in musical theater from 1661 to 1686: from the comedies-ballets
- of Moliere to the lyric tragedies of Quinault." French Studies July 2003: 385-386. AHSearch. FirstSearch. Babson College Horn Lib., Babson Park, MA. 22 July 2004 <http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/>.
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Search Type | Format | Example |
Boolean Searching
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OR
( ) to group synomyns or similar terms | moliere and critic* |
| Truncation - all variant endings | * (asterisk) | critic* |
| Singular and plural endings | + | poet+ |
| Proximity | w or w# | american w poetry
american w5 poetry |
| Field searching | tag: | au=tropp* |
Segment or Field Searching Databases use different codes to allow you to search by specific field. This can help to narrow your search to a specific publication, author, or date. |
Search Type | Format | Example | |
| Keyword | kw: | coffeehouse+ | | Abstract | ab: | linguistics | | Article type phrase | at= | poetry
[use to limit other search terms;
browse index for available article types] | | Author | au: | o'hara
ohara | | Author phrase | au= | ohara p
[last name first] | | Cited author phrase | ca= | shakespeare w
[last name first] | | Identifier | id: | mystery | | Language phrase | ln= | french
[browse index for available languages] | | Source | so: | social and history and medicine | | Subject | su: | food | | Subject phrase | su= | food resources | | Title | ti: | wine song and poetry | | Title phrase | ti= | the wine song in classical arabic poetry | | Volume | vo: | 301 | | Year | yr: | 1999 |
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