At some point as a college student, you'll probably be expected to use scholarly articles (also known as peer-reviewed, academic, or refereed articles) for research papers. But how can you tell if a source is scholarly?
Scholarly sources have several distinct features that set them apart from other kinds of articles. Click on the red plus sign icons in the scholarly article below to learn about what these features are and what you can do to figure out if a source is scholarly or not.
Prefer a text-based version of this guide? Find it here. (Credit for this resource: Radford University.)
