What is a peer-reviewed or refereed journal and how do I find one?
The terms “peer-review” and “refereed” when applied to journals tell you how the journal accepts articles for publication, and mean approximately the same thing. In these cases, articles submitted to a journal are sent out to a panel of reviewers “blind” i.e. without information identifying the author. This group of peers or referees judge the article’s worth based on the actual content (in theory), and journals that employ this method are generally more highly thought of than others. When the faculty want you to cite a “scholarly” journal, these are the sorts of publications to use.
