Scholarly articles often start with an abstract of the contents of the article. Articles in scholarly journals list their information sources in either footnotes or bibliographies. Authors of scholarly articles are usually subject experts, researchers or scholars in their fields. Scholarly journals often list the author's credentials near the beginning or at the end of each article. If no specific credentials are present, such as degrees or other publications, the author of a scholarly article will likely be associated with an institution of higher education.
Scholarly articles are generally much longer than articles in popular magazines.
The language used in scholarly articles draws heavily upon the terminology, jargon and definitions of the subject discipline. It assumes some degree of subject knowledge on the part of the reader. Therefore, reading scholarly articles may be difficult for newcomers to the discipline. As you can see from these examples, the name of the professional organization may or may not appear as part of the title. Print journals will list publisher information inside the journal itself.