Library Guides: Secondary Sources for Law: Search by citation

Search by citation

1. Find the full name of the Journal the article was published in

If you have a case or journal article, and you are unsure which report series or publication it is from, look up the abbreviation in one of the platforms listed below.

Law Library Legal Abbreviations Page
This page will help you to determine which service will best suit your need
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
An excellent tool for finding the full title of a journal is the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations.
Type the abbreviation in the Search by Abbreviation search box for the full title. The results list will include all journals that use that abbreviation.
Genamics JournalSeek
(UniMelb staff & students) - contains over 41,000 journal titles. You can search by abbreviation or full name.
UlrichsWeb: Global Serial Directory
Detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.

2. Search the Library Catalogue for the Journal

Search the catalogue by Title to access the journal. Note, unlike Google Scholar or Discovery, the catalogue's title search is searching publication titles, not article titles.

Library Catalogue
Once you have the full title, you can search the Library Catalogue to find if we have access to the full text.

3. Locate the article in the journal database

View the catalogue record for the journal, and select the most relevant database for full text article access.