These guidelines are meant to help make your submission most successful with our editors and our audience. Accordingly, they provide you with pieces of advice for writing in an argumentative, well structured, and clearly articulated way based in academic traditions of the field of American studies. In addition, we stress the importance of working with and correctly crediting secondary material in your writings. Finally, this guide includes the aspeers house style, which details specific deviations from and additions to MLA style both in writing and documentation that are meant to improve clarity and consistency.

Since these guidelines are not static, but continually evolving, future additions are possible. We will inform you of any such changes, and the most up-to-date version can always be found at www.aspeers.com/style. In any case, these rules and guidelines represent what aspeers deems good style, hence we encourage you to follow them in preparing your submission.

At the same time, we greatly appreciate any questions, suggestions, or other kinds of feedback you might have about these guidelines and the house style. Please direct them to Stefan Schubert.