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About the French Studies format

French Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, covering French Literature and Poetry, Historical and Literary Analyses, French Literature and Criticism.

PublisherOxford University Press
Reference styleAuthor–year (OUP)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', French Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inFrench Literature and Poetry Historical and Literary Analyses French Literature and Criticism Historical and Literary Studies Renaissance Literature and Culture
ISSN0016-1128
Citation impact (2-yr)0.01
h-index60
i10-index392
Total citations19,309
Article processing charge$3,122
Top institutions publishing hereScience Oxford
Journal websitefs.oxfordjournals.org
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Papers published in French Studies per year

371
2014
420
2015
353
2016
333
2017
338
2018
308
2019
269
2020
225
2021
279
2022
257
2023
159
2024
239
2025

Citation impact of French Studies by publication year

1.1K
2014
1.4K
2015
394
2016
103
2017
86
2018
83
2019
50
2020
19
2021
18
2022
20
2023
4
2024
1
2025

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

Most-cited papers in French Studies

Hauntology, spectres and phantoms

Colin Davis · 1 Jul 2005

Hauntology, as a trend in recent critical and psychoanalytical work, has two distinct, related, and to some extent incompatible sources. The word itself, in its French form hantologie, was coined by Jacques Derrida in his Spectres de Marx (1993), which has rapidly become one of the most controversial and influential works of his later period.…

Review. la litterature au second degre. Genette, Gerard, Palimpsestes

June Sturrock · 1 Oct 1982

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Palimpsestes: la litllérature au second degré. By GÉRARD GENETTE. (‘Poétique’). Paris: Seuil. 1982. 467 pp. 100 F. JOHN STURROCK JOHN STURROCK LINDFIELD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 499–501, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXVI.4.499 Published: 01 October 1982

French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader

Penelope Deutscher · 1 Jan 2006

Edited by Christina Howells. London — New York, Routledge, 1994. 453 pp. Pb £19.99. With twenty-eight contributors covering the areas of ethics, alterity, psychoanalysis, epistemology, legal and political theory, Christina Howells has put together an anthology of remarkable range and size. It eclipses the competing anthologies (Moi's French Feminist Thought and Oliver and Walsh's Contemporary…

La Lecture et la vie: les usages du roman au temps de Balzac La Lecture et la vie: les usages du roman au temps de Balzac. By J <scp>udith</scp> L <scp>yon</scp> -C <scp>aen</scp> . Préface d'A <scp>lain</scp> C <scp>orbin</scp> . Paris, Tallandier, 2006. 383 pp. Pb €21.00.

Michaël Tilby · 1 Jan 2007

This highly readable study offers, from the perspective of an historian or social scientist, an incisive analysis of letters addressed to Balzac and Sue by certain of their readers, both male and female. Although some of these letters have long been known, others are exhumed for the first time. Substantial extracts are reproduced in an…

French Studies template — frequently asked questions

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In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the French Studies template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official Oxford University Press format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does French Studies use?
French Studies uses Author–year (OUP) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', French Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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No. DocuGuru generates the oup-authoring-template LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a Oxford University Press-ready French Studies document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
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