1. How to identify trade journal articles
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2. Trade journal articles are short articles, written for people working in particular fields, trades, or industries.

3. Trade journals disseminate news and information of interest to a specific category of business or professionals...

4. … [trade journals] are often published
by a trade association1, and typically contain citations or a reference list.
1.       Reitz, Joan. (2014). "Trade Journals." Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (ODLIS):

5. but you’re not sure if it’s a trade journal article?
Did you find an article
but you’re not sure if it’s
a trade journal article?

6. Trade journal articles are not always obvious from the search results

7. The first result is from an article database

8. And the second result is from the Discovery Search

9. Neither indicates that these are trade journal articles

10. Clicking on the title in the results list shows that this is a short article
(1 page)

11. There are no citations and no reference list

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