Here you will select two articles related to your area of interest from your top journals.  You will provide an annotated bibliography for each article.  With this you are building the Chapter 2 of your dissertation which ultimately will results in your literature review.  Here are two links on doing an annotated bibliography.    You will be doing your work in APA format.  Note there are MLA and APA format for documents and references.  This dissertation for UC will be in APA.  
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/annotated_bibliography_samples.html
https://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography