Skip to Main Content

ENGL1323 Composition and Literature II: Find a Reference

Links to Catalog and Journal Locator.

1. Use the Catalog to search for this journal. Use the drop down menu to search by Periodical. Where is would one find this? 

2. Try the  Journal Locator from the Library Homepage also.  Maybe the journal is in an online database.

Using the Library Catalog for Author, Title and Subject Searches. (Video)

Publication Locator is NOW called Journal Locator

Example of a citation from a REFERENCE BOOK.

This below is an example of a citation for John Updike in the Short Story Criticism Set found behind the Reference Desk. One looks up the title of the short story needed. Use the smaller index that comes with the set. Find the pages listed to see the abbreviated copy of the ORIGINAL criticism. Professors FROWN on students using these sourses.  The ANSWER is to find the ORIGINAL source.  After reading the critique in the set found in the Moody Library Reference Collection, look for the ciation to the ORIGINAL SOURCE.

Here is an example of what is listed under the short story "A & P" in the index of the set; the bolded numbers represent the volume numbers in the set:

              "A & P" (Updike) 13: 372, 398-99; 27:320-30; 103:295-98, 312-14, 316-17, 332, 348, 361-62, 369, 371, 378

Now find volume 103 and flip to page 295.  Now you can read the condensed version but YOU NEED to find the ORIGINAL article Citation found on volume 103 page 295 of the Short Story Criticism Set:

Wells, Walter. “John Updike’s ‘A & P’: A Return Visit to Araby.” Studies in Short Fiction 30, No. 2 (Spring 1993): 127-33.

          Views “A&P” as a retailing of James Joyce’s Short Story.

 

 

Is this a book ciation or a journal citation?  Do you see a publisher listed?  If not look for a volume and issue number.   This ciation is from the JOURNAL Studies in Short Fiction.  One would need volume 30 issue 2 of this journal.

1. Use the Catalog to search for this journal. Use the drop down menu to search by Periodical. Where is would one find this? 

2. Try the  Journal Locator from the Library Homepage also.  Maybe the journal is in an online database.