Founded In    1959
Published   quarterly
Language(s)   English
     

Fields of Interest

 

interdisciplinary

     
ISSN   0026-3079
     
Affiliated Organization   Mid-America American Studies Association
     
Editorial Board

Editorial Board
Crystal Anderson
Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
Thomas Augst
Davarian Baldwin
Dawn Coleman
Clare Corbould
Todd Decker
Dennis Domer
Philip Drake
Jonathan Earle
Gerald Early
Keith Eggener
Nan Enstad
Daniele Fiorentino
Iris Smith Fischer
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Randall Fuller
John Gennari
Tanya Golash-Boza
William Graebner
Udo Hebel
Douglas Hartmann
Rebecca Hill
Mark Hulsether
Serenity Joo
Frieda Knobloch
Cheryl Lester
Tiffany Ana Lopez
Carol Mason
Fiona Ngo
Eric Porter
Wilfried Raussert
Sonnet Retman
David Roediger
Eric Sandeen
Alex Seago
Jane Simonson
Deborah Vargas
Travis Vogan
Shirley Wajda
Deborah Whaley
Psyche Williams-Forson

Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policies

Format and style of submissions. Manuscripts need to be in a Word file. In addition, please prepare an abstract of no more than 250 words.  You will be asked to cut-and-paste the abstract into a form after you upload your manuscript. Article manuscripts (including endnotes, tables, and references) should be double-spaced with one-inch margins on all sides. All manuscripts should be between 20 and 30 pages, not including endnotes. All footnotes/endnotes should use Arabic numerals, not Roman numerals. All figures should be placed at the end of the manuscript. Include full citation information in the first endnote, and use short form of citation in subsequent citations. Do not include a “works cited.” All manuscripts not meeting these standards will be returned to the author for reformatting. Because American Studies uses a double-anonymous review process, contributors are asked not to put their names on manuscripts; only the title should appear on the manuscript. Contributors agree upon submission that manuscripts submitted to American Studies will not be submitted for publication elsewhere while under review by American Studies.

Authors may submit manuscripts following the most recent editions of Chicago, MLA, or APA. However if the article is accepted it will be the author’s responsibility to convert it to the citation rules of the Chicago Manual of Style as reflected in the AMSJ style sheet.

Form of submission We require authors to submit their work using the journal’s online submission system. For questions regarding submissions or the online submission system, please contact: Assistant Editor, asjo@ku.edu.

Graphics Submission Guidelines Photographs and other imagery often enhance the text and the journal considerably; the Editors encourage authors to provide illustrations with their submissions. We do, however, require the following: Electronic images are preferred. Our printer has specified they prefer halftone and color images be at minimum 300 pixels per inch (ppi), while line art should be scanned at 1200 ppi. If possible, images in .PNG or .TIFF are preferred. As nearly all images downloaded from the Internet are in .JPEG or .GIF format and will be 72 dpi, they are rarely acceptable to be printed. Sizing these images to fit the page can cause pixelation, rendering them unrecognizable or warped. If you have trouble finding an image of acceptable quality, please feel free to check online sources such as Flickr. Many images on Flickr are available to the public under a Creative Commons license. If sending physical photographs, please send us good quality, glossy prints or camera-ready line art, ready for press. We will not be able to use images/figures inserted in Word documents. If your submission is accepted, please send us original copies of all images included, along with captions, as well as notes indicating an estimated location for page layout. If we need to edit captions, we will of course check back with you during the proofing process. *Please note that authors are responsible for obtaining permission for any images they wish to use. If permission to reproduce the image is needed, we require the appropriate documentation granting that permission. Where necessary, the appropriate wording granting permission, which will be placed under the photograph or at the end of the article (“Reproduced by permission of . . . .,” etc.) should also be included. Please mail physical images to:

Assistant Editor
American Studies
The University of Kansas 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 213
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7590
e-mail: asjo@ku.edu

     

American Studies

American Studies (AMSJ) is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Mid-America American Studies Association, the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of American Studies, and KU Libraries. American Studies (AMSJ) first appeared in 1959, and has 1,000 current subscribers. In 2005 it merged with American Studies International (ASI), and welcomes submissions with an international perspective. ASI, a journal for American Studies scholars outside the U.S., was published by the American Studies Department at George Washington University for over forty years. Beginning with Vol. 45 (2004), ASI ceased publication as an independent journal, and merged with AMSJ, with the agreement that AMSJ would devote at least one issue a year (or the equivalent) to transnational American Studies scholarship, international American Studies authors, and would maintain a significant showing of scholars outside the U.S. on its editorial board. The “On Teaching” forum, now on the AMSJ blog, Dialogues, originated as an ASI feature.

Randal M. Jelks, Editor
Sherrie Tucker, Editor
Chris Perreira, Associate Editor and Editor of Dialogues

Blog link: http://ams.blog/

With an editorial board from a number of areas of study, the journal offers provocative perspectives on a variety of issues. Frequent special sections and special issues create a space for a broad discussion on a single topic. Articles on pedagogy inform the American Studies classroom. The book review section aims at keeping readers conversant with contemporary scholarship. Our website https://journals.ku.edu/amerstud/ provides free access to the back issues of the journal. The most recent three years are available via print subscription as well as many library databases.

 

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