Think of the peer review process as a scholarly conversation. Other ways historians converse about methods, theories and sources include:
Scholarly journals are journals that publish peer reviewed articles. A peer reviewed article is one that has been scrutinized by other scholars or experts (peer reviewers) in a field prior to publication. Peer reviewers look to see that an article
Popular, non-peer-reviewed articles are ones that do not undergo academic scrutiny; these kinds of articles are generally found in news magazines like Time and National Geographic.
View this short video from NCSU libraries that explains the peer review process.
There are two types of footnotes (or endnotes) in historical writing. Anthony Brundage in Going to the Sources calls them reference footnotes and content footnotes.¹
From: Lewis, Michael. Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.