Scholarly journal articles are very different from magazine or newspaper articles.
| Magazines | Scholarly Journals | |
| Purpose | to entertain, inform, sell, or present a point of view | to report on research or other scholarly work |
| Format | many pictures, advertisements | graphs, statistics, charts (very few ads) |
| Style | concise, sensational writing style | lengthy, technical terminology |
| Author | probably a paid journalist or freelancer with no specific qualifications in the subject of the article, sometimes anonymously published | an expert on the topic of the article. will include the name, position, and institution |
| Editors | staff editor, probably another journalist | other experts working in the same field |
| References | no footnotes or bibliography | sources always cited. extensive list |
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