Searching the Publication Database (PDB) and outputting queries

Search between dates

Enter search dates.

Author surname(s)

Searches can be made for more than one author at a time, but they must be seperated with with a logic statement AND, OR or NOT e.g.

   Abraham AND Ellis NOT Ellison

Word(s) in title

Searches can be made for more than one word in the title. Again they must be seperated with with a logic statement AND, OR or NOT.

Select references from

This is based on the original ADS query of referred or non-referred journals.

Grant code

Select the grant code under which the paper may have been published. Leave blank if not know.

Reference status

Verified references will have a status of checked. The option all references allows retreival of both checked and unchecked references from the PDB.

Results sorted by

Query results may be sorted by author or year.

Include title

The publication title may be displayed or not.

Style1

An old style in which the title is presented first, followed by authors etc.

Style2

A more modern style in which authors is presented first, and the option of including a title is presented.

Html

If the html format is adequate then press the print option to get a hardcopy.

Latex

Save the file as a html source document i.e. click on File, then save as and then specify output filename, and ensure that Format for Saved Document is Source. The file is saved to disk with the output name you have specified e.g. ref.html. Then run a html2latex converter to generate the latex file e.g. type on the command line:

   html2latex   ref.html

which will generate a file called ref.tex, which may be latex'ed in the usual way to generate a postscript file.

Word

Save the file as a html source document (see above), then inport directly into Word. Then first save the document as a word file before using it again as part of another document (to avoid compatibilty problems).