Use these helpful steps to quickly and effectively use the database PsycArticles. Provides full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

2. When should I use
PsycArticles?
0 Use PsycArticles database when you are looking for
articles on psychology topics.
0 PsycArticles contains articles from both magazines
and scholarly/academic journals.

3. The Library Website
0 http://www.daytonastate.edu/library/

5. Click on the link that says
“Databases A to Z”

7. Sign in first
0 Your borrower ID is your student ID #
0 Your PIN is the last four digits of your Social Security
number

9. Now you see a list of titles
0 PsycArticles is the last “P” entry on the list.
0 Click on the title to go to the database.

11. Click on the blue bar to
connect to the database

14. Now you’re ready to search
0If you need scholarly journal articles,
put a check in the box that says
“Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals”
0Type your topic into the search box then
click on the “Search” button
0You need to spell your search terms
correctly
0You don’t need to use any of the other
boxes or limiters

17. Working with your results
0Your results are sorted by relevance
0That means the “best” results are on
top, not the newest
0Use the slider on the left to weed out
older dates
0Click and hold the slider, drag it to the
date you want, and click on “Update”

20. Now all your results are from
within the past ten years

21. Read the article
0Click on “PDF Full Text” below the
article description
0If you have a choice between PDF and
HTML Full Text, choose PDF.
0PDF articles come with page numbers.
If you use a quote from your article in
your paper, you will need the page
number. HTML does not have page
numbers.

24. Using article tools
0Look at the “Tools” menu at the right of
the page
0From here, you can print the article, or
email it to yourself
0You can also print or save the article by
using the icons at the upper left corner
of the article

26. Citing the Article
0 Under the Tools menu, find the icon that looks like a
yellow sheet of paper.
0 When you mouse over it, it will say “Cite.”
0 Click on that, then choose your citation style (APA, for
psychology) from the list.
0 You can copy and paste the citation into your works
cited or references page.
0 Note: the citation may not be 100% correct. Check
with an APA style guide for the correct format.
0 This does not give you the in-text citation.

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