Authors are free lance writers or magazine staff members. Authors may mention sources, but rarely cite them in notes or bibliographies. Individual issues contain many advertisements. There is no peer review process. Articles are reviewed by editors or publishers.
Illustrations are numerous and colorful.
Articles are meant to inform and entertain an educated audience. The Modern Language Association International Bibliography indexes 3,000 English language and foreign periodicals as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. Its subject matter includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Reviews of literary and scholarly works are not included. There are no abstracts.