diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 509caefaf..135b0d3c5 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ export(elsevier_article)
 export(frontiers_article)
 export(ieee_article)
 export(joss_article)
+export(journals)
 export(jss_article)
 export(mdpi_article)
 export(mnras_article)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 6988c0766..eedb7604f 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 rticles 0.15
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+- Add a new `journals()` function to list all available journal names.
+
 - Template directory in package's `rmarkdown/templates` directory has been renamed from _journalname_article_ to _journalname_. To create a new document using `rmarkdown::draft`, only the _journalname_  should be provided, i.e `rmarkdown::draft("MyArticle.Rmd", template = "rjournal", package = "rticles")`
 
 - Improved the `rjournal_article()` format : `.tex`, `.R`, and PDF files with correct names are generated to match the author's guidelines, two affiliations is now supported for authors, the last author is separated by `and` when multiple authors are present, and the documentation has been improved on the help page `?rticles::rjournal_article` and in the skeleton document (thanks, @RLumSK, #286).
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 9efe6a5a0..4c5c168bf 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#' List available journals
+#'
+#' The function [journals()] will list available journal names in the **rticles**
+#' package. These names can be useful in two ways :
+#' * You can add `_article` suffix to get the format (i.e [rjournal_article()]).
+#' Only exception is for the [ctex()] format.
+#' * You can use the name directly in the `template` argument of
+#' [rmarkdown::draft()].
+#'
+#' @return a vector with the journal names of format available in rticles
+#' @export
+#' @md
+#' @examples
+#' rticles::journals()
+journals <- function() {
+  sort(dir(pkg_file("rmarkdown", "templates")))
+}
+
 find_resource <- function(template, file = 'template.tex') {
   res <- pkg_file("rmarkdown", "templates", template, "resources", file)
   if (res == "") stop(
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 31ef2d5d9..dfead0072 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ Currently included templates and their contributors are the following:
 | [The R Journal](https://journal.r-project.org/) |  |  | `rjournal_article()` |
 
 
+You can also get the list of available journal names with `rticles::journals()`. 
+
 Under the hood, LaTeX templates are used to ensure that documents conform precisely to submission standards. At the same time, composition and formatting can be done using lightweight [markdown](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_basics.html) syntax, and R code and its output can be seamlessly included using [knitr](https://yihui.name/knitr/).
 
 Using **rticles** requires the prerequisites described below. You can get most of these automatically by installing the latest release of RStudio (instructions for using **rticles** without RStudio are also provided).
diff --git a/man/journals.Rd b/man/journals.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..69846349a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/journals.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/utils.R
+\name{journals}
+\alias{journals}
+\title{List available journals}
+\usage{
+journals()
+}
+\value{
+a vector with the journal names of format available in rticles
+}
+\description{
+The function \code{\link[=journals]{journals()}} will list available journal names in the \strong{rticles}
+package. These names can be useful in two ways :
+\itemize{
+\item You can add \verb{_article} suffix to get the format (i.e \code{\link[=rjournal_article]{rjournal_article()}}).
+Only exception is for the \code{\link[=ctex]{ctex()}} format.
+\item You can use the name directly in the \code{template} argument of
+\code{\link[rmarkdown:draft]{rmarkdown::draft()}}.
+}
+}
+\examples{
+rticles::journals()
+}
diff --git a/tests/testit/test-utils.R b/tests/testit/test-utils.R
index a7b1577be..cfe8330ac 100644
--- a/tests/testit/test-utils.R
+++ b/tests/testit/test-utils.R
@@ -27,3 +27,9 @@ assert("last author is prepend with and ", {
   unmodified <- c("\\author{John, Bob}", "some text", "\\author{Mary, Dany}")
   (suppressWarnings(post_process_authors(unmodified)) %==% unmodified)
 })
+
+assert("all journals are listed and have a template folder", {
+  all <- grep("_article$|ctex", getNamespaceExports("rticles"), value = TRUE)
+  all <- gsub("_article$", "", all)
+  journals() %==% sort(all)
+})