Searching in Cinahl - Part 3

Hi! My name is Nicki Lerczak I'm the Instructional Services Librarian at Genesee Community College and this is Searching in CINAHL Saving and Citing Articles. This is part three in series of tutorials about searching in CINAHL. When you're in CINAHL and have located an article that you would like to save or email to yourself or keep for some future reference. What I would suggest is that you create an account within CINAHL so that you can keep things after you've searched. Otherwise, once you leave the database, these things that you have searched, the history, disappears. Also, maybe you found a great list of articles but you've run out of time and you can't get to them right away. Saving them, leaves them there for you to come back. When you're looking at an article, down towards the bottom, there is, Add to Folder. You can also add items to your folder when you've clicked on the title and are looking at the full record. I click on "Add to Folder" and it says "Go to: Folder View." And here is my article. If I want to store these items for a future session this is the part where I need to sign in. It's put them in the folder, but the folder's only temporary if I don't have an account that they are logged in to. Let's sign in and it doesn't take long to create an account. I already have one. If you needed to create one, you would come up to "Create new Account." I'm logging in, and now this article is truly saved, because I'm signed in this is actually going to stick around. Putting it in my folder before was no good if there was no account to keep it in. If it turns out I want an entire list. I don't just want that one article. I want all four of these articles. If it turns out that you would like to save an entire search, I recommend coming up here to the search history, clicking on search history and coming in here. Here's all those searches that we've done and here we finally did that limit to Evidence-Based, and our four articles and at this point, putting a check mark in the box and coming up here to "Save Searches / Alerts." What this will do is it will let us name it, so I'm going to name my search "Evidence-based Practice cancer and Asian Americans." I could give it a description or not, it's entirely up to me. And you'll notice that I've got a couple of choices here. I could save it as a Permanent Search, which means it's going to stick around until I delete it. I can save it temporarily, which might not be bad if you know that you've got to leave or stop searching for a moment and you'll be back soon, and you're guaranteed to be able to get back in. If however, life intrudes and it's more than 24 hours until you can come back to the database, that search will be gone. So, of the two, I would just recommend doing the Permanent Search and the worse thing is, you have to delete it. An alert is slightly different in that an alert, will check to see if the search that we've done finds any new ones and it will search every so often, as often as you want, and it will run for a certain period of time, and if it finds any new articles pop up on your search it will send you an email and let you know that it's found new articles. So with a search, you would have come into the database and take a look at it with an alert, it would come to you. It has saved my search. I have articles saved, I have searches saved, now I can just go, "let's see that list again, please." Let's rerun my search; here it is. Let's close up my search history. When you're looking at a particular article, let's say I like article number two, as we've mentioned before. And here's my article It's currently in my folder, it tells me it's added. Let's say I read this article which I could, it's a full text article, I have the PDF link over here and now I need to cite this article in APA format for my References page. You will notice that one of the tools on this side of the screen is "Cite." And just like when we did the limit to Evidence-Based Practice, I get another screen that overlays my search screen. And you can see I've got a variety of different citation styles. The problem with this screen is that the APA reference that they've created is using old APA. CINAHL and other EBSCO databases are not using, or showing, the current version of APA citation, which is sixth edition and this is fifth edition. It is generally correct most of it is good. The authors are fine, the year looks good, the title looks fine, the journal name looks fine, the volume and the issue are not fine. There should not be an issue number here because with the page numbers like 995 - 1003, this is a continuously paginated journal and according to APA rules, when you have continuously paginated journals there should not be an issue number. This database tends to always include one. It's not a big deal to simply remove the five in parentheses here, so that could still be copy and pasted and just delete that part. But this part "Retrieved from CINAHL Plus with Full Text database" is definitely not correct. It's not sixth edition. In APA sixth edition, they want you to end your citation with the words, "Retrieved from," but then they want you to include the web address for the journal that your article comes from. So, you have to do a search through Google, or other search engine, looking for Oncology Nursing Forum's web address or home page and include their web address here. So it would be, "Retrieved from http: and so on, the whole address of Oncology Nursing Forum. It is not correct form to include the name of the database anymore. We do have library stylesheets that can help you with APA citation as well as some tutorials. Part one of the APA citation tutorials will cover a doi, in case your article happens to have a doi, and how to include those in citation. Part two covers citing journal articles. So it will go into more depth about what that continuously paginated vs separately paginated journal type is. If you have any problems citing your articles or saving articles. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with a librarian by using Ask a Librarian, from the library's main page.