Montgomery College Libraries, Nursing Academic Tutorial

MC Library Catalog offers the option to truncate a search. For example, Truncation allows the researcher to do one search for multiple endings of diabetes instead of searching for each ending separately. To do a truncation search you will use a truncation symbol to locate all forms of the word. In MC Library Catalog the truncation symbol is a question mark(?).

For example, the root word diabe? has different possible endings.

diabetes, diabetic, diabetid, diabetogenic, etc.