The easiest way to find a resource from a given citation is to search for the article title in Cross Search. To do that, you will need to be able to identify the different parts of a citation.The video below gives instructions on how to do this, as does the example below.
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy
Orueta, D. (2002). Thermal Relationships between Calendula arvensis Inflorescences and Usia aurata Bombyliid Flies. Ecology, 83(11), 3073–3085. https://doi.org/10.2307/3071843
1) If the article's citation ends with a URL or a DOI number, copy and paste it into the address bar of a web browser (like Google). If you are on campus, this should bring you to a page about the article, and if we have full text access to the article through our subscriptions, you should see an option to download the full text PDF somewhere on the page.
** Note ** This will NOT work if you are off-campus. The full-text subscription access is verified through our on-campus IP address. If you are off-campus, you are no longer using Holy Cross's IP address, and therefore the journal doesn't recognize that you have paid access. You Holy Cross username and password will not work if you try to login to a journal from its webpage. If you are off-campus, please go directly to step 2.
Steps to finding the full text of an article from an article title, or journal title:
2) Type the title of the article into CrossSearch (the big purple box on the libraries' homepage). If we have access to the article, it should appear in a Cross Search search. If it does not, you can search the title in World Cat to see if you can order the item through ILL.
In many popular resources, there is not a clear works cited page or even a formal citation given. Sometimes popular resources simply do not cite their sources at all. One of the biggest indicators of credible information is that it can be verified through other resources, so if you're consulting a source with NO citations what so ever, consider finding a different source. However, if you don't immediately see a clear citation or works cited page don't panic!
Often times popular sources will credit information they received from other sources in one of three ways:
The third option can be the trickiest to spot, because the citation or acknowledgement is baked into the actual writing of the source. If you want to find a source that an author has mentioned in this way, try and find the name of the resource or author and conduct a database/internet search with one or both of those details. This will likely bring up the source you're looking for or other sources that mention it.