No matter what citation style you use, sometimes professors will ask you to use "scholarly articles" rather than popular magazines. What's the difference? See the table below:
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Characteristics
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Scholarly Articles
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Popular Magazine
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Appearance
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Sober and serious
May contain graphs or charts
Will not find glossy pages or photographs
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Attractive appearance
Advertisements
Heavily illustrated
Glossy paper
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Audience
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Scholars and students
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General audience
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Authors
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Scholars in the field of study
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Reporters, usually not experts on the subject
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Documentation
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Sources cited in footnotes and/or bibliography
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Sources not cited or cited informally
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Purpose
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Report results of original research or experimentation
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Provide general information
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Article Acceptance
Procedure
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Many (but not all*) scholarly journals are "refereed" or "peer review" journals - articles undergo a rigorous examination by other scholars in the field before being published.
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Written by hired reporters, edited by magazine editors, and published.
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Example journals
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Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Journal of Sports Medicine
Internal Journal of Sport Psychology
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Sports Illustrated
Coach and Athletic Director
Bicycling
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Example articles
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Peer-reviewed article example
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Popular article example
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*Peer review = reviewed by peers independent of the journal. Scholarly = not peer reviewed but has an editorial staff knowledgeable in the field
