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Finding Resources: By Citation

Use these slides to learn how to:

Find citations for books, journal articles and book chapters

Use the Library Search to find citations

Recognise La Trobe’s Harvard Style

Use the Library Catalogue and Journal title search

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What are citations and resource lists?

A list of resources from your lecturer

A reference to a book, article, website or other published item with details to locate it

Often has a consistent style of presentation – called a citation style

The citation style for this subject is the La Trobe Harvard Referencing Style

See examples on the right

Collis, D. & Montgomery, C. 2008, ‘Competing on resources’, Harvard Business Review, vol. 86, no. 7-8, pp. 140-150.

Duhaime, I.M., Stimpert, L., Chesley, J. 2011, ‘Frameworks for analysis of industry’, in Strategic Thinking: Today’s Business Imperative, Taylor & Francis, Hoboken.

Emery, P. 2011, ‘Understanding the current environment: the SWOT analysis’, in The Sports Management Toolkit, Taylor & Francis, Hoboken, pp. 6-25.

Manning, P. 2012, ‘Australia ‘losing’ on food exports to Asia’, The Age, 13 June, p. 5.

Moore, D.A. 2011, Managerial decision making, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Rosner, B. 1999, ‘What is the key to an effective business presentation?’, Workforce, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 24-25.

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Finding the cited resource1. Identify the resource type

To help you decide which search tool to use and what to

search for

2. The most common citations are books, journal articles and book chapters or sections.

Book or journal article?

Books have publisher and place of publication details.

Journals will have volume and issue numbers.

3. Use the Search tool on the Library homepage.

Collis, D. & Montgomery, C. 2008, ‘Competing on resources’, Harvard Business Review, vol. 86, no. 7-8, pp. 140-150.

Emery, P. 2011, ‘Understanding the current environment: the SWOT analysis’, in The Sports Management Toolkit, Taylor & Francis, Hoboken, pp. 6-25.

Moore, D.A. 2011, Managerial decision making, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

← Journal Article

← Chapter in a book

← Book

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Using the Search tab

Searching: Be as precise as possible Try the author’s last name with the

title of the book or journal, e.g. Harvard business review and collis and competing on resources

Sorting the results: Reduce search results to Scholarly or

Peer-reviewed For Content Type – tick the required

resource to match your citation type Access the resource by clicking on

the title or the online logo

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Can’t find the resource? Much academic literature is not freely available on the internet.

Not all resources will be found using one source. Try searching another library tool.

1. Select the Catalogue tab2. Type in your search terms3. Select Title from the drop-down menu4. Mildura and Shepparton campus students

need to select their campus to search for books in their library’s catalogue

5. Click Go to start the search

Journals search Use this if you know the name of the

journal containing the article

1. Select the Journals tab2. Type in the name of the journal3. Click GoLeave Print & electronic and Title as the default search

Catalogue search Good for searching books (online and print), DVDs, journal titles Does not contain individual articles from newspapers and journals

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Need more information?

Online videos for this slide:

• Using the Library Search – Title Searching

• Using the Library Search – Topic Search

• Finding Books – Using the Library Catalogue’s Title Search

• Finding Books – Using the Library Catalogue’s Keyword Search

LTU Harvard Referencing Style – see the Harvard Referencing Module to learn about why and when you should cite your sources and how to set out your bibliography using Harvard. http://latrobe.libguides.com/content.php?pid=145846

Referencing Examples – see the Academic Referencing Tool for examples of how to reference different types of resources. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/help/style-guides.php

Library Search – watch a short video on getting started with Library Search. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/help/getstarted.php

Finding items on a reading list – see the online tutorial on finding items on a reading list. http://latrobe.libguides.com/readinglist