Characteristics of Academic Journals and Popular Magazines

Your lecturer will often require that you include information from academic journals when writing your assignments. Academic journals are very different from popular magazines.

Academic journals may also be called scholarly and are often peer-reviewed.

Activity

Click on the questions below to understand the key differences between academic journals and popular magazines.

Summary

Now you have completed this guide you can:

identify the elements of a journal reference to find a journal article recommended by your lecturer
search Summon by article title or keyword and know how to find the full text
outline the difference between an academic journal and popular magazine