This document provides instructions for finding citations for books, journal articles, and book chapters using the La Trobe University library search tools. It explains how to identify the resource type from a citation, use the library search to find journal articles and books, and how to use the library catalog if items cannot be found through the initial search. Tips are provided for searching more precisely and filtering search results. Additional resources for referencing styles and searching techniques are also listed.

1. Finding Resources: By Citation
Use these slides to learn how to:
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Find citations for books, journal
articles and book chapters
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Use the Library Search to find
citations
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Recognise La Trobe’s Harvard Style
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Use the Library Catalogue and Journal
title search
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Find more information
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2. What are citations and resource lists?
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A list of resources from your lecturer
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A reference to a book, article, website or
other published item with details to locate it
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Often has a consistent style of presentation
– called a citation style
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The citation style for this subject is the La
Trobe Harvard Referencing Style
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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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3. Finding the cited resource
1. 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.
3. Use the Search tool on the
Library homepage.
Book or journal article?
Books have publisher and place
of publication details.
Journals will have volume and
issue numbers.
Collis, D. & Montgomery, C. 2008, ‘Competing on
resources’, Harvard Business Review, vol. 86, no. 78, 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.
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← Journal Article
← Chapter in a book
← Book
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4. 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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5. 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.
Catalogue search
 Good for searching books (online and print), DVDs, journal titles
 Does not contain individual articles from newspapers and journals
1. Select the Catalogue tab
2. Type in your search terms
3. Select Title from the drop-down menu
4. 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 tab
2. Type in the name of the journal
3. Click Go
Leave Print & electronic and Title as the default
search
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6. Need more information?
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Online videos for this slide:
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Using the Library Search – Title Searching
•
Using the Library Search – Topic Search
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Finding Books – Using the Library Catalogue’s Title Search
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Finding Books – Using the Library Catalogue’s Keyword Search
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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
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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
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Library Search – watch a short video on getting started with Library Search.
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/help/getstarted.php
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Finding items on a reading list – see the online tutorial on finding items on a reading list.
http://latrobe.libguides.com/readinglist
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