To search for an exact name or phrase, surround it with quotation marks ("."). The text string must match to find results.
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Note: If quotation marks surround a search term that includes a wildcard (like ? or *), the quotation marks are ignored. |
You can prevent word expansion (or stemming) by enclosing them in quotation marks ("."). If the quotation marks enclose multiple words, those words must appear in the results exactly as they were entered.
For example, entering "child psychology magazine" would not match children's psychology magazine because "child" is not expanded to children's. Similarly, psychology of a child would not match the query, because the terms child and psychology are out of order.
To prevent the expansion of multiple words, but avoid the word-order constraint, enclose each word separately.
For example, enter "Justice" "Department" to find Justice Department and Department of Justice.
You also can use quotation marks around phrases in Boolean queries to restrict the desired word order.
For example, entering child psychology
would match psychology of a child,
but entering "child psychology"
would not match psychology of a child
because of the word-order constraint.
Words within parentheses are searched first as a group, not as individual words. Parentheses are effective when searching for either:
Multiple related terms that may not be in the dictionary. For example:
(JFK
or "John Kennedy" or Kennedy) elections
returns matches for JFK Elections, John Kennedy Elections or Kennedy Elections.
Multiple terms that may not be linked to one another. For example:
(motorcycle AND car OR boat) trade shows
returns matches for either all motorcycle and car trade shows or all boat
trade shows.
