https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01794.x
The above article, “Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms” is an example of an academic, peer-reviewed research article retrieved from the Web of Science database. This article is academic because it is written by experts in the field of aquatic ecology and evolutionary biology, it includes in-text citations and lastly, contains a bibliography. Four referees are listed in the acknowledgments concluding this article is peer-reviewed and a lab study is presented through the Methods, Results and Discussion sections concluding it is a research article.