A citation (also called a reference) provides you with the essential details you need to find the full-text of a source and to list it in your notes and bibliography.
Breaking down the parts of a book citation:
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
|Hoffer, Peter Charles||Author|
|The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials||Title and subtitle|
|Baltimore||Place of publication|
|Johns Hopkins University Press||Publisher|
|1996||Date of publication|
To find a book from its citation, search in the library catalog GIL-Find by author or title.
Breaking down the parts of an article citation
Latner, Richard. "The Long and Short of Salem Witchcraft: Chronology and Collective Violence in 1692." Journal of Social History 42.1 (2008): 137-56.
|The Long and Short of Salem Witchcraft: Chronology and Collective Violence in 1692||Article title|
|Journal of Social History||Journal title|
|42.1||Volume 42, issue 1 of the journal|
|2008||Year of publication|
|137-56||Page numbers of the article|
To find an article from its citation, search the E-Journals tab on the Libraries homepage for the journal or magazine title. Searching by the article title or author won't retrieve your article.