 Sometimes you want to use a citation that you found in one article to find a journal article to help you along with your research process. So the first thing you need to do is you need to look at the full reference for that article that you want to find yourself. And you'll have to be able to kind of read the citation. So for example here we have a citation to an article. The very beginning of it are the author's last names. The next element is the year of publication for this article. Following that is the title of the article itself. And then next comes the journal name and the volume and issue number which that article is published in. The page numbers it appears in that journal and then the digital object identifier. The big thing here is being able to distinguish between the article title versus the journal title. So critical care nurse is the name of the journal. The name of the article is the shortage of nurses and nursing faculty. Here we have the same article in a different reference style. This is an MLA and you'll notice all of the elements are present here. We have the author followed by the title of the article and then the title of the journal, the volume, the issue, the date, the page numbers and then the digital object identifier. So in each style citation you'll find these elements are in different places. Sometimes they're italicized, sometimes they're not. It's up to you to determine what is the journal name and when it was this item published. That's what you're going to need to find the article in the databases yourself. So now we're going to do that process by looking up critical care nurse and seeing if we can find this article in the database. So I have my screen set up so I can see the citation to the article that I want to find in the databases as well as the homepage to the library website. You'll notice on the homepage that you have some options for searching. You could search the catalog, e-books, journals or media. For this search we want to see if there is a specific journal available in the library's databases and what database it's in so we can find this article. So the thing that we need to type in to find the journal is the journal name, which is critical care nurse. Once you do that search, what's going to appear are the results from all of the journal articles that contain those words available through the library's databases. You see we got 37 results. The very first one matches what we put in exactly, critical care nurse is the journal. And then underneath it it's telling me what databases have that journal available in it and what years are covered. So you'll see the first three, they have the issues from 2002 up to the present day. And then the last four, they have 2002 to 2008 available. Going back to my citation, this was published in 2009. So we cannot use the last four. We need to use one of the first three. It doesn't really matter which one we go to for this. They should all be able to find this article within them. So I'm just going to select the first one. Once you log in, you're taken to that database and it's looking at that journal in that database. So it's giving me all the different issues over here by year. I can go and click on the year 2009 and then go to the volume and issue number that are listed here 19 is the volume issue one. Or I could search within this publication up here. And when I search within this publication, I can put in the author's name or the article title itself. Whatever is unique enough to find that material that you need. So you'll see that it's automatically putting in the search for that journal. What I need to do is put in additional information to find that exact article. So I searched for the shortage of nurses in nursing faculty. The very first one that came up looks like it should be the same one that I want. This says supplement, so maybe not. I'm going to look at this one. So looking at these two, I don't know the difference between them. This is reprinted and this is the original. So this had more pages to it. That's why I was interested in looking at that one. Once you find the article that you want, you may be given the full text, the PDF full text that you can download or read if you're doing that. You can also email the article to yourself so that you have it for later. Along with the article, you probably want to send yourself an APA style citation. You can do that right here. And that's how you would find an article from a journal from a citation. If we did not find that journal in our list of databases, we could request the article from another college or library. So going back to the library homepage, you'll see that there's forms and surveys down here at the bottom. And there's one called request an item. When we don't own the full text of an item, you can request it through this form. And our interlibrary loan coordinator will go out and try to find that for you for free.