Nursing: CINAHL Basic Search

Here are some tips to help you find articles for your annotated bibliography assignment.

• Article must be from a professional American nursing journal 
• Article must be published within the last 4 years
• Article must be at least 2 pages in length

Use the following list to help select limiters for searching CINAHL. 

Under Limit Your Results : 

• Full Text: retrieves the full text of the article (non-full text articles can be requested through ILL or might be available in print at the Library.)
• Date Range: article will be published within a specific date range. 
• Peer-Reviewed: results will be from publications that use peer-review prior to publishing articles in the publication
• Research Article: helps limit results to research articles (still requires you to check that they are original research)
• Evidence-Based Practice: articles contain materials that use best practices in combination with field-critical research
• Any Author is a Nurse: this guarantees at least one author involved with the study is a nurse 
• Journal Subset: By selecting the"Nursing" subset, articles will come from journals focused on nursing
• Geographic Subset: By selecting the "USA" subset, articles will be from journals published in the U.S. 

For more information on APA citations, see this guide: https://libguides.niagaracc.suny.edu/cite/apa