This video will walk you through the parts of a
typical scholarly journal article.
Scholarly articles vary somewhat by discipline,
but in general, they contain several standard
sections that can help you evaluate them. Starting with the journal's title,
It often suggests the subject area of the journal
and the intended audience.
Here, the subject is management and the
journal’s audience likely includes management
scholars, students, and professionals. Next is the article's title. Titles of scholarly articles are often long and
detailed. They often contain technical or academic terms
that can be hard to take in at first glance.
They often contain technical or academic terms
that can be hard to take in at first glance. This title suggests a study about power and
leadership among people in different cultures.
The abstract is a brief summary of the article,
often written by the authors.
It describes the main points or findings of the
article. Reading this will help you decide whether you
want to read the whole article or not, and will help
you understand it better if you do read it. Many academic articles contain a section
towards the beginning known as the literature
review. This section provides an overview of the research
topic and summarizes previous research in the
field. The lit review section contains many citations to
other research.
Sometimes, the lit review is embedded in another
section.
The methods section describes how the study
was done.
This section includes details about how or where
the data were collected, and information about
the participants. The results section explains the researchers'
findings, often in numeric form.
This section often includes tables and charts that
summarize the data.
In the discussion, the authors explain their results
in narrative form, using words rather than
numbers. This is where the authors may suggest
implications of their research on the field as a
whole. The conclusion section is where the authors may
identify areas for further study.
It often summarizes the significant findings and
puts them in the context of previous
research in the field. At the end of a scholarly article, you’ll find a
list of references, or bibliography.
The references list contains all the articles,
books, and other information sources that the
authors used in their research. The sources are listed in alphabetical order by
the first author’s last name.
Each entry on the references list corresponds to a specific citation in the text of the
article and contains all the information you need to
locate that article. And those are the parts of a typical article in a
scholarly journal.