Title: Using the Citation Finder
Course: Library - Library Sandbox > Section: Ontario Tech Library Online: Searching Omni for Books, Articles & More

Sometimes you will be looking for a known item. A known item could be a book your professor recommended you read, an article you saw in the citation list of an article you have read, or a video a friend mentioned to you.

With a known item, you usually have some combination of information such as the article title, journal name, date published, and publisher. You do not always need to have all that information, but the more information the better.

Click Citation Finder to enter the search criteria for your known item. Depending on the type of material you are looking for (an article, a book, or a journal), you will see different forms to fill in Omni.

For articles, there will be the option to fill in a variety of types of information such as article title, page number, ISSN, DOI, author name etc.

For a book, there are fields for information such as title, year, ISBN, volume etc.

Finally, for a journal there are fields for information such as title, year,  issue, DOI, etc.

Remember that the citation finder is not the place to go at the start of your research or when you are looking for materials on a specific topic. It is for finding a specific item (one article, one journal, one book) which you already know of.

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