Scholarly Journals

 

 Scholarly journals are characterized by the following criteria:

 

CRITERIA	SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
FORMAT/STYLE	Serious / Formal
GRAPHICS	Contains graphs, tables, and charts with few photographs
SOURCES / DOCUMENTATION	Sources cited with footnotes and/or bibliographies
AUTHORS / AUDIENCE	Identified Scholars or researchers in the field or discipline; intended for scholars or researchers in respective field or discipline
LANGUAGE	Uses terminology or jargon specific to respective discipline
PURPOSE / SCOPE	Informs, reports or makes available original research or experimentation
PUBLISHERS	Published by an academic press or professional organization
ADVERTISEMENTS	Selective / Rare
EXAMPLES	Art Bulletin Research in Education Shakespeare Quarterly Politics and Society Economic Journal