## Truncation

Truncating is the replacing one or more characters at the end of your search term (and in some databases - e.g. Proquest databases - also in the middle of a search term). By using truncation you can use one search term to search for plural forms or variations of your search term.

For example: manag* will give results for the words 'manage', 'managers' and 'management'.

In the example below, we searched for manag* as a word in the title.