Search Criteria

Authors

A list of authors to match against. Authors are seperated by semi-colons (;) and surnames from forenames by commas (,). If no comma is provided the last "word" in the author's name will be assumed to be their surname. Forenames do not need to be provided.

The way authors may be specified has been designed to be unambiguous:

1. Authors are seperated by a semi-colon (;)
2. The last name (surname) of an author can either be:
1. Specified first, followed by a comma (with the forenames following)
2. Specified last, with no comma (with the forenames preceding)

Examples:

Description	Search Query
Edward Witten and Seiberg	Witten, Edward;Seiberg OR Edward Witten;Seiberg
S Hawking and S Ross	Hawking, S;Ross, S OR Hawking, S;S Ross OR S Hawking;S Ross

Title/Abstract

A boolean free-text match for either the title or the abstract. To restrict terms to only the title use the title: prefix.

All terms are stemmed according to an english-language stemmer, e.g.

• 'es' and 's' are removed from the end of words
• 'ing' is removed from the end of words

Examples:

Description	Search Query
All records that contain "physics" and "mechanics" but not "theory"	physics mechanics -theory
All records that contain "physics" and "mechanics" or "theory" but not "experimental"	physics mechanics or theory -experimental
All records that contain "string" and "theory" in the title	title:(string theory)

Publication Title

A match against the journal title.

Examples:

Description	Search Query
Physics Review B	phys.rev.b

Creation Date

A period to match the creation date of the record against. Granularity is one year. To match an individual year type it into both fields (from is from the 1st january, until is until the 31st of december).

Non-english Characters

Citebase converts all input into english alphabet equivalents, e.g. é is converted to e. The situation where this fails is where there are phonetic translations of names, where a single non-english character may be represented by 2 or more english characters.