What are Journals and Journal Articles?
A journal (also known as an academic journal or scholarly journal) is essentially a collection of peer-reviewed research papers written by scholars for scholars. These articles are often long, but they are much shorter than books. Like your research paper, these articles will contain notes (either footnotes or endnotes) and a bibliography of resources including other journal articles, books / monographs, and web resources.
Tips for reading a journal article:
The following Gale databases also contain journal articles. Just look for "Academic Journals" in the gray menu bar beneath the introductory article.
For additional databases containing journal articles, click here: Taft Online Subscription Databases: Journal Articles.
Citations may be directly exported to NoodleTools from the following journal databases:
To cite a Journal article, first choose the NoodleTools option that best describes where you found it:
Next you will choose what type of source you are citing. In this case, Journal.
A journal article citation has 2 parts:
If you have any questions about citing journal articles,
see (or email) Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti.