Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Citation Searching



The article citation I searched for,
Farrell, A., Owens, C., & Mcdevitt, J. (2014). New laws but few cases: Understanding the challenges to the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases. Crime, Law and Social Change, 61(2), 139-168. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10611-013-9442-1

To perform a citation search, I used the Mt.SAC library website and went to the 'Books, Articles & More' tab and selected 'A-Z List for eResources'. I was direct to the following website:

I searched "Crime, Law and Social Change" journal with a 'Match all words' search option. 
Screen Capture of the Citation Search Results

From there I selected the full text from ProQuest because that database is familiar to me. The search listed two other full text options but I haven't used those databases before. I selected the article year and then the volume number along with the associated issue number.

Browse by Year, Volume and Issue Number

 My article is #2:

Full Text Results

This method for searching for citations is really fast and gets you full text results to help you verify references and gain additional references. The ProQuest option also has a 'Cited by' link in which you can see other articles that cited your article in question.