Similarly, an article in Police Chief, a trade magazine, might discuss the practical applications of the study's findings, and what law enforcement administrators should know. This article might have more technical information than the Newsweek article, but less than the article in the scholarly journal. That means that before an article is accepted for publication, it is reviewed for accuracy by other experts in that field. For students, that means that the information in these journals is generally far more reliable that the information found in other types of periodicals. In a way, you could say that the authors of articles printed in scholarly journals are accountable to their peers.
Scholarly journals are also often very different in format.
Articles in scholarly journals usually begin with an abstract or summary of the article and end with a bibliography of sources cited. The pagination in scholarly journals is often different from that in popular magazines. If this sounds confusing, don't worry. Just remember that page numbers may not always be what you expect them to be when you're looking at scholarly journals. If you're having problems finding a specific article in a scholarly journal, just ask a librarian for help.