Combination searching:

✓ Combine keyword and subject searching or multiple subjects.
✓ Combine a previous searches or add new terms to a previous search.

Database Limiters:

✓ In psychology databases, use the limiters listed on Advanced Search to refine your search and for targeted results.
For example, your search may include multiple terms, such as adolescent OR teen OR young adult or youth. Do these terms represent the same age group? As shown below, using Age Group limiters opens new windowAPA PsycARTICLES can target articles for a specific age group.

✓ Date, Peer-Reviewed, Methodology, Classification, Tests & Measures, Populations, Gender, Age Group (shown above), and other limiters may be available to use in a database to refine your search.

• (adolescent OR teen OR young adult OR youth) AND"mental health disorders"
• opens new window (adolescent OR teen OR young adult OR youth) AND"mental health disorders"
opens new window (adolescent OR teen OR young adult OR youth) AND"mental health disorders"- keyword search with age limiter-Adolescence (13-17 yrs)
• opens new windowDE "Childhood Development" - subject search; Age limiter-school age (6-12 yrs), Subject-Major Heading-behavior problems
• opens new windowDE "Childhood Development" AND video games AND risk factors