Characteristics of journal articles

Before you begin searching, please review the characteristics of a journal so that you don't settle for inappropriate magazine articles by mistake

• Scholarly journals generally have a sober, serious look. They often contain many graphs and charts but few glossy pages or exciting pictures.
• Scholarly journals always cite their sources in the form of footnotes or bibliographies.
• Articles are written by a scholar in the field or by someone who has done research in the field.
• The language of scholarly journals is that of the discipline covered. It assumes some scholarly background on the part of the reader.
• The main purpose of a scholarly journal is to report on original research or experimentation in order to make such information available to the rest of the scholarly world.
• Many scholarly journals, though by no means all, are published by a specific professional organization.