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Rewiring the "Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies

Now available from The Johns Hopkins University Press is Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies. This special issue of American Quarterly has been reissued in paperback, the second to be available in book form.

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Authors should submit their manuscripts (preferably) via email to american.quarterly@usc.edu as attached documents in either Word or Word Perfect formats, or (alternatively) mail three copies to the editor.  Manuscripts are evaluated anonymously, so authors’ names should appear on a separate title page or in correspondence only.  Manuscripts should be in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 words, with a maximum of 10,000 words total, including footnotes, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.  Please note:  we do not require that you format your essay in AQ style before it is accepted for publication, but we do require that submissions be of reasonable length.  Essay submissions over 12,000 words will be returned to authors without being read. 

 

How to Format Your Essay for American Quarterly

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Please submit the final version of your essay as an attached file in either Word or Word Perfect to american.quarterly@usc.edu . All text should be in 12-point Times New Roman font.  Everything, including footnotes and block quotes, should be double-spaced.  Please format your manuscript using Chicago Manual of Style’s 15th edition. What follows is a short guide to citing in Chicago Style.

How to Cite References—Chicago Style

Citations within the Text
Please use only endnotes, not footnotes or parenthetical notation.  Underline book and journal titles, rather than using italics

Reference numbers for notes should generally go at the end of a sentence, after punctuation marks, including parentheses.  The only punctuation that can follow a reference number is a dash.

Reference numbers should be superscripted. Microsoft Word will automatically superscript reference numbers if you use the “Insert” menu on your toolbar.

Notes Page
The Notes page should be located at the end of the article.

Note Content

  1. A book by one author
    Author, Book Title (Place: Publisher, date), page number. * note: do not put “p.”

    Regina Bendix, In Search Of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 55.

  2. Editor or translator
    Editor, ed., Book Title (Place: Publisher, date), page number.
    Translator, trans., Book Title (Place: Publisher, date), page number.

    Ori Z. Soltes, ed., Georgia: Art and Civilization Through the Ages (London: Philip Wilson, 1999), 280.

    Theodore Silverstein, trans., Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), 34.

  3. A work in a collection
    Author (s), “Title of Work,” in Title of Book, ed. Editor(s) (Place: Publisher, date), page number.

    Quinsong Zhang, “The Origins of the Chinese Americanization Movement: Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League,” in Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era, ed. K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 41-63.

  4. A scholarly article
    Author, “Article Title,” Journal Title Volume. Number (date): pages.

    Jay Mechling, “Folklore and the Civil Sphere,” Western Folklore 56.2 (spring 1997): 113.

  5. A newspaper article
    Author, “Article Title,” Newspaper Title, date.

    Mike Royko, “Next Time, Dan, Take Aim at Arnold,” Chicago Tribune, September 23, 1992.

  6. A magazine article
    Author, “Article Title,” Magazine Title, date, page.

    Stephen Lacey, “The New German Style,” Horticulture, March 2000, 44.

  7. A film on DVD or VHS
    Film Title, DVD/VHS, directed by Director (release date; production location: Production Company, date of DVD/VHS printing).

    North by Northwest, DVD, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1959; Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2000).

  8. Online sources
    Standard citation , URL, (accessed date).

    Alison Mitchell and Frank Bruni, “Scars Still Raw, Bush Clashes with McCain,” New York Times, March 25, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/politics/25MCAA.html (accessed January 2, 2002).

    Jessica Reaves, “A Weighty Issue: Ever-Fatter Kids,” interview with Hames Rosen, Time March 14, 2001, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599, 102443,00.html (accessed July 10, 2001).

  9. Interviews and other personal communications
    Source, type of communication, date.

    Jerry Rothman, interview with author, October 14, 2003.
    Jerry Rothman, letter to author, October 14, 2003.

  10. Dissertation or thesis
    Author, “Title” (Ph.D. diss./master’s thesis, university, date).

    MaryJo Marks, “Ordinary Pictures and Everyday Language: Photography and Text in 1960s American Art” (Ph.D. diss., CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 2003).

  11. Paper read at a meeting
    Author, “Title” (presented at the [description of meeting], location, date).

    Dwain Mefford and Brian Ripley, “The Cognitive Foundation of Regime Theory” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, March 1987).

How to Submit Illustrations

We can accept illustrations either as black and white photographs or as electronic scans (this is preferred).
Do not submit images embedded in Word or PDF files. Please submit a separate file for each image, labeled as such: Author Last Name figure number. file extension. For example: Smithfig1.jpg

Indicate how large you would like each image to be (full page, half page) and whether or not the image needs to be cropped. If the image needs cropping, please indicate how on a photocopy.

Size
5 x 7 is the average size submitted; however, please scan images at 100% if possible.

Format
TIFF format is preferred for photographs. The resolution must be at least 300 dpi at a size of no less than 4 inches x 6 inches. JPEG format is acceptable IF the dpi (resolution) is at least 300 for grayscale images (photos) and 1200 for black-and-white line art (charts, diagrams, drawings at a size of at least 4 inches x 6 inches). EPS format is fine for line art.

Captions
Please submit captions in a separate file clearly noted by figure number.

Labels
The placement of images should be noted in the text, such as:

Permissions
You are responsible for getting proper permission for your illustrations and should submit the permissions along with your final essay before your essay is copyedited.  AQ can pay some moderate image fees, but our budget is limited.  Images are in the public domain if they were published in the U.S. prior to 1923 or if they are the work of the U.S. government.  A good source for public domain images is the Library of Congress website.  An argument for fair use is occasionally possible for images that are discussed in your essay; however, you must consult with us well in advance if you want to claim fair use for an image.  Otherwise, you must contact the owners of the images you would like to use and obtain both print and electronic world rights for the use of the images.  Please use the template that follows. It is important to explain to the copyright holder that we need world rights chiefly because we have print and electronic subscribers outside the U.S.  We need electronic rights, in addition to print rights, because the on-line issue appears in Project Muse at the same time as the print issue is mailed.  The copyright holder may also want to know the circulation of the print journal; it is approximately 6000 copies per issue. 

Please use this template when corresponding with image copyright owners:

I am writing to request permission to reproduce the following material:

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JHUP requests nonexclusive world rights to the material as part of the article only in all languages, for print and electronic editions of the issue; and the nonexclusive world right to grant permission to reprint the material as part of the article only in all languages and print or electronic editions. The electronic edition of the journal is subscribed to by academic libraries with paid subscriptions and retransmitting from site is restricted; online art is not reproducible at original quality if downloaded.

May I have your permission to republish the above material in my essay in American Quarterly? If you are not the copyright holder, or if additional permission is needed for world rights from another source, please so indicate.

Thank you for your consideration of this request. Please return this form to me at the address above. A duplicate copy is enclosed for your records.

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