Help topic: Table of contents

Each table of contents has the journal's title, subtitle and main editor(s) displayed at the top of the page.

Sorting tables of contents

The table of contents is arranged by article type and sorted by page number.

Use the 'Sort by' drop-down menu if you want to sort the contents in a different way. You can sort by page, author, title, article type and published date.

To help you navigate quickly between issues, a link to 'Previous issue' and 'Next issue' appears at the top of each page.

Author and Keyword Index

Note: this feature is not yet available for all journals.

Click on the 'Author Index' link to bring up a list of authors who have contributed to this issue. If you have access to the full text of the journal you will see links to the abstract, PDF and HTML (if available) of their article next to their name. If you do not have access to the full text, you will see a link to the abstract.

Click on the 'Keyword Index' to bring up a list of keywords and links to the related articles.

Purchase this issue

Some journals are making individual issues available for purchase. If this is the case, you will see an 'Add this issue to your basket' link above the table of contents. Note: only the online version of the issue is available for purchase in this way.

View Table of Contents as PDF

Clicking the 'View Table of Contents list as PDF' button allows you to open the table of contents in PDF and/or save it to your desktop.

Useful features

Save to My Saved Articles

To save an article to return to later, click the checkbox(es) next to the article(s) you are interested in, or select all by clicking the 'Select all' checkbox. Then click the 'Save to My Saved Articles' button at the top or bottom of the page. You can view your saved articles in 'My saved articles' page. Note: you need have registered and logged in to use this feature. See Help on 'My Saved Articles'.

Export Citations

To download citations to your desktop or email them to a colleague, click the checkbox(es) next to the article(s) you are interested in, or select all by clicking the 'Select all' checkbox. The click the 'Export Citation' button. See Help on 'Export Citation'.

Download PDFs

This feature allows you to download PDFs of articles to your desktop if you have access to the full text. If you do not have access to the full text you can use it to download abstracts. Again, click the checkbox next to the article(s) you are interested in, then click 'Download PDFs'. A new page or tab will open and you will be asked where you want the downloads saved and how you want to name them. Then click 'Start Download'. The PDFs will be downloaded in turn and you can stop the download at any point by clicking 'Stop Download'.

Add article(s) to basket

You can buy articles on a pay-per-view basis. To do this, click 'Add to Basket' beneath the article you are interested in. You can also buy more than one article at a time by clicking the checkboxes next to the articles you are interested in. Or you can select all by clicking the 'Select all' checkbox. Click 'Add to basket' at the bottom of the page and you will be taken to the Shopping Basket.

View Selected Abstracts

To view the abstracts of selected articles check the boxes next to the ones you are interested in, then click 'View Selected Abstracts'. A new window will open displaying the abstracts you have chosen.

Accessing the articles

The following information is provided for each article:

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If you do not have access to the full text of the article, beneath it you will see links to 'Preview', 'Abstract', 'Add to Basket' and, for some journals, 'Request Permissions' and 'Ask Your Librarian'. Clicking on 'Preview' will bring up a box containing the text of the abstract. See Help on Abstract, Shopping Basket, Request Permissions and Ask Your Librarian for more information about these other features.

If you, or your organisation, has subscribed you will see links to 'Preview', 'Abstract', 'PDF' and, where available, 'HTML' and 'Request Permissions'. Clicking on 'Preview' will bring up a box containing the abstract, with tabs to the 'HTML Article Structure (ie to the sub-headings that appear in the article) and to a list of the 'Figures and Tables' included in the article.

Note: to prevent abuse, Cambridge Journals Online users are allowed to view 1,000 pages from the site as a whole, of which 100 pages may be full-text article downloads, per IP address per hour. If you exceed this number of downloads, you will see a message to that effect asking you to resume activity in an hour.

Right-hand navigation panel

As well as the standard 'Quick Search' and 'Cite Search' features available throughout the site, the drop-down search menu on a table of contents page allows you to restrict your quick search to that issue ('This issue'), or the journal ('This journal) or to related subject areas.

From this panel you can access a number of useful features: you can set up contents alerts; bookmark the issue you are looking at; forward the table of contents to a colleague; subscribe to the journal; return to the journal's homepage.

Social bookmarking

You can also bookmark the journal issue to a number of different social bookmarking or networking sites by simply clicking on the link to the site of your choice. See Help on 'Social bookmarking' for more information.