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The American Historical Review Template

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About the The American Historical Review format

The American Historical Review is a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, covering American Constitutional Law and Politics, Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis, American History and Culture.

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', The American Historical Review, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

Formats any DOI in the closest standard style — The American Historical Review has no published style definition, so this is an approximation. No sign-up.

Publishes research inAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis American History and Culture Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Race, History, and American Society
ISSN0002-8762
Citation impact (2-yr)0.04
h-index384
i10-index22,074
Total citations1,558,223
Article processing charge$4,400
Top institutions publishing hereColumbia University
Journal websitewww.americanhistoricalreview.org
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Papers published in The American Historical Review per year

1.1K
2014
1.1K
2015
1K
2016
992
2017
1.1K
2018
1.3K
2019
636
2020
641
2021
446
2022
492
2023
589
2024
928
2025

Citation impact of The American Historical Review by publication year

805
2014
1.4K
2015
1.3K
2016
1.1K
2017
723
2018
693
2019
681
2020
276
2021
287
2022
138
2023
50
2024
14
2025

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

Most-cited papers in The American Historical Review

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

R. Bin Wong, Dipesh Chakrabarty · 1 Oct 2001

Acknowlegments ix Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe 3 Part One: Historicism and the Narration of Modernity Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 27 Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital 47 Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History 72 Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts 97 Part Two: Histories of Belonging…

9,436 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

Elisha P. Douglass, Alfred D. Chandler · 1 Jun 1978

* Introduction: The Visible Hand * Modern Business Enterprise Defined * Some General Propositions * Part I. The Traditional Processses of Production and Distribution *1. The Traditional Enterprise in Commerce * Institutional Specialization and Market Coordination * The General Merchant of the Colonial World * Specialization in Commerce * Specialization in Finance and Transportation *…

4,619 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

The American Historical Review template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does The American Historical Review use?
The American Historical Review 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', The American Historical Review, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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