Ovid Tutorial 2.0
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Searching for a specific journal

In addition to searching for authors and words in an article title, you can also look for citations in a specific journal.

For example:

If you are looking for a series of articles on using the medical literature and you knew that they were published in either Jama or the Annals of Internal Medicine you could find then by searching for the words in the title and by the journal names.

Type in the unique words in the journal title and the either Click on    or use ".jn." after the words.

Note: If you do not use the JOURNAL Icon or the ".jn." the system will default to looking for your words as a subject term.
# Search History Results Display
1 medical literature.ti. 380 Display
2 jama.jn. 42908 Display
3 annals of internal medicine.jn. 16661 Display
4 1 and (2 or 3) 54 Display

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