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About the Journal of Consumer Culture format

Journal of Consumer Culture is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Fashion and Cultural Textiles, Gender, Feminism, and Media, Cultural Industries and Urban Development.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Consumer Culture, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inFashion and Cultural Textiles Gender, Feminism, and Media Cultural Industries and Urban Development Culinary Culture and Tourism Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
ISSN1469-5405
Citation impact (2-yr)1.16
h-index84
i10-index457
Total citations36,364
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Manchester
Journal websitejoc.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Journal of Consumer Culture per year

54
2014
36
2015
61
2016
40
2017
42
2018
37
2019
21
2020
54
2021
42
2022
23
2023
18
2024
25
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Consumer Culture by publication year

3K
2014
1.3K
2015
1.4K
2016
1.3K
2017
1.2K
2018
683
2019
431
2020
954
2021
507
2022
151
2023
44
2024
24
2025

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

Most-cited papers in Journal of Consumer Culture

Consumption and Theories of Practice

Alan Warde · 15 Jun 2005

This article considers the potential of a revival of interest in theories of practice for the study of consumption. It presents an abridged account of the basic precepts of a theory of practice and extracts some broad principles for its application to the analysis of final consumption. The basic assumption is that consumption occurs as…

2,566 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Production, Consumption, Prosumption

George Ritzer, Nathan Jurgenson · 1 Mar 2010

This article deals with the rise of prosumer capitalism. Prosumption involves both production and consumption rather than focusing on either one (production) or the other (consumption). It is maintained that earlier forms of capitalism (producer and consumer capitalism) were themselves characterized by prosumption. Given the recent explosion of user-generated content online, we have reason to…

2,019 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Practice-ing behaviour change: Applying social practice theory to pro-environmental behaviour change

Tom Hargreaves · 1 Mar 2011

This article applies the insights of social practice theory to the study of proenvironmental behaviour change through an ethnographic case study (nine months of participant observation and 38 semi-structured interviews) of a behaviour change initiative — Environment Champions — that occurred in a workplace. In contrast to conventional, individualistic and rationalist approaches to behaviour change,…

1,034 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Consumers, Producers and Practices

Elizabeth Shove, Mika Pantzar · 25 Feb 2005

The idea that artifacts are acquired and used in the course of accomplishing social practices has important implications for theories of consumption and innovation. From this point of view, it is not enough to show that goods are symbolically and materially positioned, mediated and filtered through existing cultures and conventions. Twisting the problem around, the…

881 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Putting Consumers to Work

Detlev Zwick, Samuel K. Bonsu, Aron Darmody · 13 Jun 2008

Co-creation is a new paradigm that has captured the imagination of marketing and management professionals and scholars. Drawing on Foucault's notion of government and neo-Marxist theories of labor and value, we critically interrogate the cultural, social, and economic politics of this new management technique. We suggest that co-creation represents a political form of power aimed…

694 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Journal of Consumer Culture template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Journal of Consumer Culture format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Journal of Consumer Culture template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Journal of Consumer Culture use?
Journal of Consumer Culture uses Author–year (Harvard) 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', Journal of Consumer Culture, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Journal of Consumer Culture?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Journal of Consumer Culture document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Journal of Consumer Culture template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Journal of Consumer Culture format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
Who publishes Journal of Consumer Culture?
Journal of Consumer Culture is a multidisciplinary journal published by SAGE. DocuGuru's Journal of Consumer Culture template matches SAGE's official submission format.
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Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Journal of Consumer Culture template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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