Before trying to understand the scholarly and peer-reviewed articles, get a firm grasp of your topic with definitions, topic overviews, and information written with the learner in mind.
Whether you're looking for peer-reviewed or just credible scholarly sources, most library databases allow you to limit your search results to just these kinds of articles. Take a look at some of these databases to get started.
We've got many resources and tools to help with this. For quick citations, I recommend Citation Machine. For more advanced citation management, Zotero is my favorite.
