Step One: What Kind of Article?

First, you need to decide what type of article you're looking for.

• Scholarly articles
  • Written by specialists in their fields of study
  • Published in journals for specialized audiences usually identified by:
    • Academic discipline (such as archaeology, Italian literature, economics, or biology)
    • Broad fields of study (such as the humanities, social sciences, or sciences)
• General interest articles
  • Written by a variety of authors, including scholars
  • Published in journals and magazines aimed at educated but not specialized audiences, or at the general reading public