# How to determine peer-reviewed journal articles?

## <mark style="color:green;">✔</mark> Peer-reviewed journal articles <mark style="color:green;">✔</mark>

Make sure you see the <mark style="color:red;">title of the journal</mark>, <mark style="color:blue;">volume</mark>, <mark style="color:yellow;">issue</mark>, and <mark style="color:green;">page numbers</mark>.

\ <mark style="color:green;">✔</mark> Nichols, E. B., & Loper, A. B. (2012). Incarceration in the household: Academic outcomes of adolescents with an incarcerated household member. <mark style="color:red;">Journal of Youth and Adolescence</mark>, <mark style="color:blue;">41</mark><mark style="color:yellow;">(11)</mark>, <mark style="color:green;">1455–1471</mark>.&#x20;

<mark style="color:green;">✔</mark> Crowder, K., & Downey, L. (2010). Interneighborhood migration, race, and environmental hazards: Modeling microlevel processes of environmental inequality. <mark style="color:red;">American Journal of Sociology</mark>, <mark style="color:blue;">115</mark><mark style="color:yellow;">(4)</mark>, <mark style="color:green;">1110–1149</mark>.

<mark style="color:green;">✔</mark> Miles, Eleanor, and Richard J. Crisp. 2014. “A Meta-Analytic Test of the Imagined Contact Hypothesis.” *<mark style="color:red;">Group Processes and Intergroup Relations</mark>* <mark style="color:blue;">17</mark> <mark style="color:yellow;">(1)</mark>: <mark style="color:green;">3–26</mark>. <https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430213510573>.

## <mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Books <mark style="color:red;">✘</mark>

You will see the <mark style="color:blue;">publisher name</mark> at the end. In certain citation formats, <mark style="color:orange;">the city</mark> and/or <mark style="color:orange;">state</mark> where the book was published are also included

<mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Castles, S., Haas, H. G. de, & Miller, M. J. (2014). The age of migration: International population movements in the modern world (5th ed). <mark style="color:blue;">Palgrave Macmillan</mark>.

<mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Portes, Alejandro, and Rubén G. Rumbaut. 2006. *Immigrant America: A Portrait*. 3rd ed. <mark style="color:orange;">Los Angeles:</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">University of California Press</mark>.

<mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Finch, Janet, and Jennifer Mason. 1993. *Negotiating Family Responsibilities*. <mark style="color:orange;">London:</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">Routledge</mark>.&#x20;

## <mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Book chapters <mark style="color:red;">✘</mark>

You will see the <mark style="color:blue;">chapter title</mark>, <mark style="color:orange;">the book name</mark>, and <mark style="color:yellow;">the editor(s) name</mark>.

<mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> King, Russell. 2000. <mark style="color:blue;">“Generalizations from the History of Return Migration.”</mark> Pp. 7–55 in *<mark style="color:orange;">Return migration: Journey of hope or despair?</mark>*, <mark style="color:yellow;">edited by B. Ghosh</mark>. Geneva: International Organization for Migration.

<mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Fokkema, Tineke, Eralba Cela, and Yvonne Witter. 2016. <mark style="color:blue;">“Pendular Migration of the Older First Generations in Europe: Misconceptions and Nuances.”</mark> In *<mark style="color:orange;">Transnational Aging: Current Insights and Future Challenges</mark>*, <mark style="color:yellow;">eds. Vincent Horn and Cornelia Schweppe</mark>. New York: Routledge, 141–61.

<mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Landis, Daniel R., and Jerry Boucher. 1987. <mark style="color:blue;">“Themes and Models of Conflict.”</mark> In *<mark style="color:orange;">Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives</mark>*, <mark style="color:yellow;">edited by Jerry Boucher, Daniel R. Landis, and Karen Arnold Clark</mark>, 18–32. Beverly Hills: Sage.

## Steps

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### <mark style="color:green;">✔</mark> Search the title of the study in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)

Search this in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)

> Incarceration in the household: Academic outcomes of adolescents with an incarcerated household member.

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1. Search the title of the study in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)
2. Click on the link.
   1. This will open the study webpage
3. It's a peer reviewed journal article, IF:
4. You see the DOI number in the link (starts with "10").
5. See the journal name
6. See the volume, issue, and page numbers.
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### <mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Books: Search the title of the study in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)

Search this in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)

> *Immigrant America: A Portrait*

<figure><img src="https://1373704161-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FFj6bxTviGJMBga1Kc5Yc%2Fuploads%2F6xsf5HLLekjtVCUcky1N%2Fsff.png?alt=media&#x26;token=492348df-ad1a-4e54-b181-2d82aa6ffab7" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

1. Search the title of the study in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)
2. Note that it says \[BOOK].
3. Click on the link.
   1. This will open the study webpage
4. It's a book, IF you see a publisher name.
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### <mark style="color:red;">✘</mark> Book Chapters: Search the title of the study in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)

Search this in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)

> Pendular Migration of the Older First Generations in Europe: Misconceptions and Nuances

<figure><img src="https://1373704161-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FFj6bxTviGJMBga1Kc5Yc%2Fuploads%2F80m8BOsF1P0WD6HyYCxl%2Fsff.png?alt=media&#x26;token=7b776bd4-4805-4c01-a709-6a1c1f948d72" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

1. Search the title of the study in [www.scholar.google.com](https://www.scholar.google.com)
2. Click on the link.
   1. This will open the study webpage
3. It's a book chapter, IF you see the word "Chapter"
4. It's a book chapter, IF you see the the book information.
5. It's a book chapter, IF you see the the publisher name.
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### You can ask AI

1. Paste the end-text citation of the study.
2. Ask your preferred AI tool if it's a peer-reviewed journal article.
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