Environmental Engineering
Introduction
A reference or citation is a written description of a bibliographic work and has two distinct purposes:
- Helps the reader distinguish what the work is without having to actually see it, and if they decide they do want to see it ...
- Gives the reader enough information to be able to find it.
Although many references in the online environment have links to the full text, sometimes the links are missing or do not function, or you may be given a written list of citations without the URL addresses. In these cases, you'll need to know how to find an item using its citation.
The instructions below show examples of citations for the different types of documents in which engineering information appears; the citations are in the IEEE citation style. Following the citations are instructions for finding the document including what databases to use and what part of the citation to search in those databases. There will usually be two or more recommended databases for each document type; if you do not find the document in the first database, try the second one, etc., before using the Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery services.
Document Types: