Help topic: Citation alert

This feature allows you to receive emails telling you when an article you are interested in has been cited in another publication.

To use this feature you need to have registered and logged in.

Go to the journal's homepage and click on the issue you are interested in. This will bring up the table of contents for that issue. You can set up citation alerts for a particular article by clicking on either the link to the 'Abstract' or to the 'HTML' - which will appear if you have access to the full-text. Clicking on either link will open a new window.

At the top right-hand side of the new page you will see the Volume number followed by a number of links. Click on 'Citation alert'. This will take you to another page called 'My citation alerts'. The article you have selected will be displayed. Next to the article a drop-down menu allows you to set the frequency with which you want Cambridge Journals Online to check for citations. Your options are weekly or monthly. Enter your email address into the 'Email address' text box and click the 'Update' button at the top or bottom of the page. You also have the option to turn off the alert (and, later, to come back and re-instate it) or to delete it altogether.

Once you have added an article to 'My citation alerts' you will receive regular emails informing you if the article has been cited elsewhere. The email will include full citation details (title, author, journal, volume, issue, page number) of the citing article and a link through to it.