Fields and Field Abbreviations
For "deep searching" of Embase, use the field labels to qualify your terms to specfic fields; e.g. epilepsy:ti or ‘united states’:cy. You may type these as shown or select them from the Field Limits under the Advanced Search box.
Important: Use quotation marks for multi-word phrases, numerals and words of two characters or less.
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Field |
Label |
Example |
Notes |
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Abbreviated journal title |
ta |
‘new engl j med’:ta |
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Abstract |
ab |
‘end of life care’:ab |
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Accession number |
an |
‘2008579230’:an |
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Article title |
ti |
‘bioterrorism’:ti |
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Author name |
au |
‘gold a p’:au |
‘gold a’:au retrieves all authors named A. Gold, with or without middle initials; truncation character not needed |
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Author address |
ad |
‘food and drug administration’:ad |
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Author e-mail |
em |
‘myname@goodisp.com’:em |
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Book publisher |
bp |
‘john wiley’:bp |
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CAS Registry Number |
rn |
’50 99 7’:rn |
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Citation |
ct |
physics:ct |
Includes Author (au), Issue (ip), Page range (pg), Publication year (py), Journal title (jt), Start page (sp), Article title (ti) and Volume (vi) |
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Clinical Trial Number |
cn |
NCT001166888:cn |
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Conference date |
dc |
‘1989-05-04’:dc |
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Conference location |
lc |
‘new york’:lc |
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Conference name |
nc |
‘symposium on niddm’:nc |
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Country of author |
ca |
italy:ca |
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Country of journal |
cy |
canada:cy |
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Device manufacturer |
df |
dupont:df |
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Device trade name |
dn |
dermabond:dn |
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Drug index term |
dd |
diazepam:dd |
For drug term alone, use “:?. When adding subheadings, use / . |
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Drug manufacturer |
mn |
glaxo:mn |
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Drug trade name |
tn |
lipitor:tn |
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Editor name |
ed |
johnson:ed |
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Embase classification |
cl |
‘047’:cl |
Corresponds to Excerpta Medica Abstract Journal section number; add leading zeros so that code is three digits long. |
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Index term (Emtree subject descriptor) |
de |
‘insulin’:de |
Includes Drug index term (dd) and Medical index term (dm). |
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Explosion (Emtree index term) |
exp |
‘antineoplastic agent’/exp |
Retrieves narrower terms in subject tree |
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ISBN |
ib |
'9781573317351':ib |
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ISSN |
is |
‘0012-186x’:is |
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Issue |
ip |
‘10’:ip |
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Journal title |
jt |
‘new england journal of medicine’:jt |
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Language of article |
la |
french:la |
For English-language articles, use In English limit on search forms |
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Language of summary |
ls |
english:ls |
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Link (Free-floating subheading) |
lnk |
‘adverse drug reaction’:lnk |
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Major (Emtree index term) |
mj |
Ischemia/mj |
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Medical index term |
dm |
‘lung tuberculosis’:dm |
For disease term alone, use “:?. When adding subheadings, use / . |
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Molecular sequence number |
ms |
eu518933:ms |
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Original (non-English) title |
tt |
(herz or coeur):tt |
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Page range |
pg |
’61-88’:pg |
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Publication type |
it |
‘short survey’:it |
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Publication year |
py |
‘2009’:py |
Use square brackets and slash for year ranges |
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Publisher item identifier |
ii |
S0093691x02011287:ii |
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Source type |
pt |
book:pt |
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Start page |
sp |
‘27’:sp |
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Volume |
vi |
‘39’:vi |
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