ARCH 40312 — Social Factors & Sustainability

What is a citation search? A citation search allows you to identify publications that later cited a particular author or work relevant to your literature search. This is useful in identifying other relevant authors and publications for your bibliography.

How to conduct a citation search:
Choose and author and/or article/publication of interest.
*Note: Recently published sources often won't yield many citation results because time is required for the source to circulate and be cited by new publications.

• Click on the arrow next to "Basic Search" and select "Cited Reference Search" from the dropdown menu.
• Enter the author's name using the recommended format (James FJ) and the year of publication (1990). Enter the specific work if applicable, again using the recommended format.
• Select Search.
• A list of authors and works that have been cited in reference lists of other articles in the database appears. 
• Select the entries relevant to/that match your chosen author or work, then select Finish Search.
• Review the list of resulting sources that have cited your chosen author/publication and select those that are of interest.

• Enter the author name and publication title
• Click on the magnifying glass icon to search.
• Find the entry containing the correct author and publication. Below the entry, you will see "cited by ####." This number is the number of publications that cited the originally entered work in reference lists.
• Review the list of resulting sources that have cited your chosen author/publication and select those that are of interest.

The majority of article databases for architecture do not contain full-text articles. You have to find the article in other databases, in print, or via Interlibrary Loan.