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Scholarly periodicals are also referred to as Academic Journals or Academic Newspapers, Journals, or Refereed Journals. "Refereed" means that not only is the journal edited, but that every article included in the journal is reviewed by authorities in the subject field of the journal, to decide whether or not the article should be published.
Some criteria of a scholarly journal or other scholarly periodical are:
• The journal is mostly read by people
involved in or interested in the field
of study covered by the journal
• Articles are often lengthy, and include
footnotes or endnotes and works cited
information
• Graphs, charts, statistical information,
and tables are often used to support
the text or research
• The vocabulary is geared to the field
of study covered by the journal
• The articles are very often peer
reviewed (refereed)
Non-Scholarly Periodicals (Magazines) publish articles that are not considered or meant to be of a highly serious, scholastic nature.
This is not to say that the articles in any given non-scholastic magazine or newspaper are false or badly written. It only means that, for scholarly research purposes, non-scholarly periodicals do not have the recognized level of authority that a scholastic journal usually has.
Some criteria of a magazine or other non-scholarly periodical are:
• The periodical appeals to a general
audience; the vocabulary is geared
to all readers
• Graphs, tables, and research studies
are seldom included
• The articles usually do not have
footnotes, endnotes, or
bibliographies (works cited)
• The articles tend to be short in length,
usually under 10 pages