Journal Tally

You will create a file in Word with the following information in it, and submit it through Assignments, not on paper, following the directions that are posted in the lab:

  1. Use appropriate electronic resources to generate a list of at least 15 journal articles (references) that relate to your current topic area.

  2. Look at your list of references and note what journals the articles appear in. Make a list of the journal titles and tally how many of your references appear in each journal. You must list all the journals you encounter regardless of whether or not they are available in/through the library. You will be indicating whether or not each journal is available in/through the library by placing a (y)es or (n)o after each journal title on your journal tally.

  3. The journal which our library carries with the highest number of your references becomes your target journal. If our library does not have your target journal, check to see which journals on your tally we do have, and choose the one that has the most of your references in it.

  4. Include on this page your updated proposal topic.

For example your journal tally could look something like this:

Revised Proposal Topic: Fly Behavior
TARGET JOURNAL: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Journal of Abnormal Psychology (y): 2

Physiology and Behavior (n): 3

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology (y): 4

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (y): 1

Journal of Psychopathology (n): 3


Alternate examples of Journal Tallies.