Bibliographies, footnotes, or endnotes in resources that you have already found on your topic are a great source of additional useful resources.
If the citation is to a book, use BearCat or WorldCat (both links are on the library home page) to find that book. Identifying a book using WorldCat offers you the option to request an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) if the results show that the book is not in our library or is already signed out.
If the citation is to a chapter in a book (usually this kind of citation reads Author. "Chapter Title" in Author. Book Title...), look for the book that contains the chapter. If you need to use Interlibrary loan to obtain the book, you can indicate that you only need a specific chapter in the notes field of your ILL request.
If the citation is to an article, you can use our Journal Search tool to see if we have electronic access to the Journal that your article is in.
If you need assistance interpreting a bibliographic entry, please chat with a librarian. They can assist you with the steps necessary to obtain the material.
