What is a peer-reviewed or refereed journal?
These terms generally refer to the fact that one or more persons with credentials in the discipline has read and approved the article for publication. Descriptions of the process can usually be found in the journal’s instructions to authors or manuscript submission guidelines. The journal may list an independent editorial review board including the scholarly affiliation of each member. Typically these journals do not have advertising or photographs and the articles include references or citations used by the authors. For example Time Magazine and National Geographic are not considered peer-reviewed journals. Some of the electronic databases include a limiting function that enables the searcher to retrieve articles only from peer-reviewed journals.
