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LOS 610 & LOS 710: Methods of Inquiry and Foundations of Leadership Research: Making sense of a bibliography

Making sense of a bibliography

So now what?

For the BOOKS (titles highlighted in yellow), you will check in LibrarySearch , where you can search by the title.  This is the approach even if you want just a chapter/essay in a collection, as in the example of the Gabarino article at the bottom of the page.  For a book by a single author or group of authors, like the first one, you can also search by author, but in the case of the last example, you would not check by the author of the desired article, but rather by the name(s) of the editor(s) of the book.

For the JOURNAL ARTICLES, go to the Journal Search within LibrarySearch.

For post-1990 publications that list a government agency or a non-profit organization as the publisher (example highlighted in green), it makes sense to try the Web first, making sure to enclose the title in quotes.