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Journal of American Studies Template

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About the Journal of American Studies format

Journal of American Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering American Constitutional Law and Politics, Race, History, and American Society, American History and Culture.

PublisherCambridge University Press
Reference styleNumbered
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Journal of American Studies 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics Race, History, and American Society American History and Culture Poetry Analysis and Criticism American Environmental and Regional History
ISSN0021-8758
Citation impact (2-yr)0.21
h-index35
i10-index259
Total citations9,303
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Nottingham
Journal websitejournals.cambridge.org
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Papers published in Journal of American Studies per year

250
2014
238
2015
183
2016
195
2017
185
2018
182
2019
184
2020
145
2021
29
2022
68
2023
70
2024
17
2025

Citation impact of Journal of American Studies by publication year

179
2014
275
2015
267
2016
205
2017
141
2018
136
2019
118
2020
57
2021
29
2022
10
2023
16
2024
3
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of American Studies

Journal of American Studies

1 Apr 1998

The Editors of the Journal of American Studies want to operate an open policy, and we welcome suggestions for future special issues. As the leading European journal in the field, the Journal of American Studies needs to take active account of new departures in the established disciplines, the rapid growth of new disciplinary areas and,…

What Does It Mean to Be an American? The Dialectics of Self-Discovery in Baldwin's “Paris Essays” (1950–1961)

James Miller · 20 Mar 2008

This article looks at a number of James Baldwin's early essays. These include “Stranger in the Village” (1953), “A Question of Identity” (1954), “Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown” (1950) and “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American” (1959). In these essays Baldwin resolves the contradiction between his sense of himself…

American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis in the “Universal” Nation, 1776–1850

Eric Kaufmann · 1 Dec 1999

The history of nativism in the United States has received considerable scholarly attention, yet the few systematic attempts to explain it have focused predominantly on psychological or economic causes. This article asserts that such explanations fail to address the crucial cultural dimension of the nativism issue, which must be analyzed through the prism of historical…

Educational Exchange and Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War

Liping Bu · 1 Dec 1999

The United States after World War II experienced symbiotically the fear of the Soviet threat and the belief in its own system as the ultimate choice for the world. In the confrontation with the Soviet Union, cultural relations programs began to be organized and designed in accordance with national security interest. George F. Kennan, the…

A Short History Of Oil Cultures; Or, The Marriage Of Catastrophe And Exuberance

Frederick Buell · 25 Jan 2010

In opposition to energy historian Vaclav Smil, who argues that “timeless literature … show[s] no correlation with advances in energy consumption,” this essay makes the general claim that energy history is significantly entwined with cultural history. Energy history is in fact entwined with changing cultural conceptualizations and representations of psyche, body, society, and environment; it…

Journal of American Studies template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Journal of American Studies format?
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What reference style does Journal of American Studies use?
Journal of American Studies uses Numbered references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Journal of American Studies 12 (2023) 45–58.
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Journal of American Studies is a multidisciplinary journal published by Cambridge University Press. DocuGuru's Journal of American Studies template matches Cambridge University Press's official submission format.
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