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Using Cited Sources

Bibliographies are a great source of information for your own research. If you've found a book or an article that you really like, always take a look at the bibliography or works cited. You can use citations to find the books and articles that are referenced.

A great way to do this is with UC Library Search or with Google Scholar. 

Reading a Bibliographic Citation

When you encounter a bibliography, you will need to decipher the various parts of the bibliographic entry to do a search. Usually, the title of a book or journal will be in italics. The title of a journal article might be in quotations, but not always. In some scientific journals, you will see journal titles abbreviated. That's okay, because the title of the article won't be abbreviated, and that's what you need to put UC Library Search or Google Scholar to search for the article. 

Citation Table

 

"Cited By" searching

Bibliographies show you scholarship conducted prior to the article or book you have in hand. "Cited By" or Cited Reference Searching is a way that scholars can track the impact of particular sources on later publications. 

Google Scholar is a powerful tool for Cited Reference Searching, because it is multi-disciplinary, and also contains some book and book chapter information. The "Cited By" link is usually listed right underneath each listed article in a search result page.

Article listing in Google Scholar with Cited By tool highlighted

Make sure you have the VPN turned on when you use Google Scholar, to ensure that you have access to the journals that UCI subscribes to.