Citation trails is tool that links articles cited by an article as well as articles that cited the record you are looking at.

Note that only records that MSUM owns and have activated will appear in the citation list.

Records that have a citation trail will have a symbol indicating:  

Items cited in this record   

Items that cite this record 

Using Citation Trails (Ex Libris Knowledge Center)

What is cited references searching?

Cited references are the articles, books or other materials listed in a bibliography or as works cited in a particular publication. Because citation databases index each reference, it is possible to search these cited references.

Here is a guide to searching cited references in EBSCO products (including ERIC, Academic Search Complete, PsycInfo and Education Research Complete):