Contents:
Why use Cited Reference Searching
Example
How to Search

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Why Use Cited Reference Searching?
Cited reference searching finds journal articles that have cited a specific work (journal or monograph). Using cited reference searching, you can go forward in time from a known work. The assumption is that if an article cites a specific work, it will relate to the ideas articulated in the original work. Through a Related Records search you can expand citation searching into a "family tree" of related articles in a given field of inquiry.

Example:
In 1979 Keith H. Basso published the book: Portaits of "the Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache. This book explores Apache joking imitations of "Whiteman" behavior, which highlight Apache behavioral norms and their contrast to white people's norms. Has anyone since then looked at jokes and joking in different cultures, or in culture contact situations?

How to Search:

1. In the Full Search mode, select Cited Ref Search You can then search either by Cited Author or by Cited Work. In either case, you should use the
   truncation symbol *for best results:
   Cited Author: Basso K*
   Cited Work:Portrait* White*
   Note: Use only nouns and verbs in a book title search.
   
   When searching a journal article, use the journal title abbreviation list linked above the Cited Work box. NOTE: this list is not complete! Individual articles from journals not on this list may still be cited! (eg. Atlantic Monthly is not on the list, but appears as source under a cited author search for Bush V*)



2. Click on the Lookup button



3. Select appropriate Cited References from results list. Make sure to browse the list to identify variant renditions of the same item. In our example, we will find results both under Basso K and Basso KH



4. Click on Search button and look through the list of articles citing the original you searched on.
   In our example, we find an article by J. Siegel: "How to get a Laugh in Fijian: Code Switching and Humor" from 1995 that is relevant to our line of inquiry.



5. To extend your search to a "family tree" of related articles, click on an article that is closest to your topic, then:
   
   a.) Click on the Cited References. This will produce the list of references of the newly found article (which will include the original work you knew). Click on Related Records to get a new list of articles that share at least one cited work with the article you just looked at.
   
   b.) OR: Click on Times Cited to find other articles that in turn cited the article that cited our original article. In our example, if we look at the articles citing "How to get a Laugh in Figian," we find two articles about humor and teasing written in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Thus we were able to take our research forward from a known item written in 1979 to a new reference written in 2002.

CAVEAT:
There is NO AUTHORITY CONTROL whatsoever in ISI web.
Personal names, titles of works and other information appears in a variety of spellings and misspellings! Always truncate using the *symbol. And always browse the results list to pick up any (misspelled) variations.

Make use of the Help Screens. Many of the limitations of the database (e.g. field truncation) are explained in the help screens, and many of the search tips are very helpful in maximizing the usefulness of this database. Despite serious problems, you can get some useful results if you take extra care.