Citation Format Assistant (January 27, 2010)
By Bridget MacMillan
An easy way to find out if LexisNexis® has the journal article you need is to use the Citation Format Assistant tool found within the Get a Document tab. The Citation Format Assistant tool can be searched for a specific entity, like the DePaul Law Review, or browsed by the letters of the alphabet. Once you find the source you want the Citation Format Assistant will prepopulate the search box with the source’s citation, thus saving you that step, and at this point you see coverage information. In the case of the DePaul Law Review you learn that coverage begins with Volume 4 in 1993. If you need an article from Volume 2, then you will have to retrieve it via another means.
Remember the Citation Format Assistant when you have articles to retrieve, it saves you having to determine the correct citation format, and tells you the source coverage on the search screen!
