Manuscripts

Statistical Modelling operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewers' and the Associate Editor's names are always concealed from the submitting author. All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors. Only those papers that meet the editorial standards of the journal, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, are sent for outside review by at least two referees.

Publication Ethics

Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway

All material submitted for publication is assumed to be exclusively for Statistical Modelling, and not to be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. All authors must assign copy­right to Sage upon acceptance (by completing the copyright assignment form).

All submissions must be made by one of the authors of the manuscript. No submissions will be accepted from agents of professional organizations or publishers.

Priority and time of publication are decided by the editors, who maintain the customary right to edit material accepted for publication if necessary.

Submission of manuscripts must be in electronic form only. Initial submission of the paper should be as a single, all-inclusive document in PDF format (that is, including all figures and tables embedded in the main text body). LAT_EX with the smj class is the required package for document preparation; submissions using any other word processing or typesetting package, or not using the smj class, will not be accepted. The smj class file (smj.cls) together with aLAT_EX template of the manuscript (smj-template.tex) is available for download from here.

Using proper LAT_EX commands (see preamble of smj-template.tex), authors are requested to include the following information on the title page of their manuscript:

• first names, surnames and (as appropriate) initials of the middle names of all authors;
• current affiliations of all authors;
• identification of the corresponding author (this is not necessarily the first author), his/her full postal address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers (including the country code);
• title and a short title (to be used as a running header) of the paper;
• abstract;
• keywords.

All correspondence regarding the manuscript will be conducted with the indicated corre­sponding author, who also receives the proofs and final PDFs of the paper if it is accepted for publication.

An abstract of up to 200 words should be included together with 5 or 6 keywords in al­phabetical order to describe the content of the paper. Authors should take great care in preparing the abstract and not simply lift it from the main text. The abstract should de­scribe the background and contribution of the manuscript and give a clear verbal description of the results and examples, and avoid citations whenever possible.

Papers should not normally exceed about 35 pages of a format provided by the smj LAT_EX class including all figures, tables and references. Authors should consider separating material for online supplemental presentation on the journal's web site, particularly if the paper is long.

Any acknowledgements should be included as an unnumbered section at the end of the text before the list of references.

Files under five megabytes can be sent by email to an editor as an attachment. Larger files can be submitted by placing them on an FTP or HTTP site and directing an editor to them.

Upon acceptance of the paper, authors should send the following files:

• one LAT_EX file of the article (without figures);
• all figures in either (Encapculated) Postscript or PDF format;
• one PDF file of the full version of the paper;
• an ASCII file of any data used in the paper and any novel software routines (see below).

There is no fee for submission of a paper to the journal. There are no acceptance fees or page charges for papers that have been accepted for publication.

Open Access Option

Authors interested in making their accepted article freely available online can use the Sage Choice option. Details can be found at http://www.sagepub.com/oa/choice.cp. Authors who wish to pursue this option should advise one of the editors, as well as the journal editor at Sage upon acceptance of the paper.

Style

General
Abbreviations should be spelled out when first used in the text. Full stops should be used in lower case abbreviations (e.g., i.e.) but not for capitals (SAS, ANOVA). Spelling is to follow the Oxford Dictionary.

Mathematical
All vectors and matrices should be shown in bold type (x, S).
Avoid confusion between ambiguous characters and take care to ensure that subscripts and superscripts are clear.
Numbers below 10 should be written out in the text unless used in conjunction with units (e.g. three apples, 4 kg).
Full points (not commas) should be used for decimals. For numbers less than one, a nought should be inserted before the decimal point. Use spaces (not commas) within numbers (e.g. 10 000, 0.125 275).
Only those displayed equations that are referred to at least once in the text and obtained by LAT_EX environments like
\begin{equation}\end{equation}
should be numbered.

Headings and Subheadings
Sectioning of the text should be achieved by the LAT_EX commands \section, \subsection, \subsubsection. The section, subsection and subsubsection titles should be written in a sentence style:

1 First level heading

1.1 Second level heading
1.1.1 Third level heading
The use of more than three levels of heading should be avoided.

Tables and illustrations
These should have self-explanatory legends and captions. After acceptance of a manuscript, the authors will be required to submit (Encapsulated) Postscript or PDF versions of all figures.

Footnotes
Footnotes are strongly discouraged. Authors should make every effort to make such material part of the running text.

Data and Software
It is expected that any data used will be made available upon acceptance of the manuscript, either as an included table for small datasets or as ASCII files for larger datasets. These data will be made available on a linked website upon publication of the paper. If there are confidentiality problems, authors should contact an Editor to work out a solution, which could be the inclusion of an example based on a similar (but artificially simulated) dataset.

Brief information on the software used for any analyses should be included in the paper. Any novel software used in the paper (language source code or macros/routines for standard packages) should also be made available, together with driver programs that allow the reader to reproduce the results given in the paper. For published papers this code will also be put on the linked website.

References
The Harvard style should be used for references, with citations in the text giving authors’ names and dates of publication, using Kneib (2013) for a direct reference and (Kneib, 2013) for an indirect reference. “et al.” should be used in citing references where there are more than two authors, so (Komárek and Lesaffre, 2006), but (Gómez et al., 2009) if there are three or more authors. The references are then listed in full at the end of the article in alphabetical order.

Journal article (one author):
Kneib, T. (2013). Beyond mean regression. Statistical Modelling, 13, 275–303.

Journal article (two authors):
Komárek, A. and Lesaffre. E. (2006). Bayesian semi-parametric accelerated failure time model for paired doubly-interval-censored data. Statistical Modelling, 6, 3–22.

Journal article (three or four authors):
Li, L. Simonoff, J.,S., and Tsai, C-.L. (2007). Tobit model estimation and sliced inverse regres­sion. Statistical Modelling, 7, 107–123.

Gómez, G. Luz Calle, M. Oller, R., and Langohr, K. (2009). Tutorial on methods for interval-censored data and their implementation in R. Statistical Modelling, 9, 259–297.

Journal article (more than four authors):
Waldmann, E. Kneib, T. Yue, Y.R. Lang, S. (2013) Bayesian semiparametric additive quantile regression. Statistical Modelling, 13, 223–252.

Journal titles should be stated in full. List surnames and initials of all authors

Book:
Fahrmeir, L. Kneib, T. Lang, S., and Marx, B. (2013). Regression: Models, Methods and Appli­cations. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Chapter in book:
Lesaffre, E. Komárek, A., and Jara, A. (2009) The Bayesian approach. In Lesaffre, E. Feine, J. Leroux, B., and Declerck, D. eds. Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research, pages 315–338. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.

Capabilities of the LAT_EX natbib package can be used to include references in a proper way. The natbib package is automatically loaded with the smj class. It is also possible to use bibTEX to produce the list of references. When doing that do not include any \bibliographystyle command in your manuscript. A proper smj bibliography style is chosen automatically by the smj class.

Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain written consent from the original pub­lisher and author(s) to use any copyrighted material published previously elsewhere. Please forward all correspondence with the final version of your manuscript.

Final paper and complimentary copies of journal
The corresponding author will be supplied the final PDF version of the paper. All contribut­ing authors will receive one complimentary copy of the journal issue in which the article appears.

Instructions in pdf format is available at http://www.statmod.org/smij/smj-instruct.pdf

Addresses for Submission

Submit your paper to:

Vicente Núñez-Antón

Co-ordinating Editor, Statistical Modelling: An International Journal

University of the Basque Country, Spain

email: vicente.nunezanton@ehu.eus [unzipped attachments only]

If you do not receive confirmation of the submission within seven (7) days or a clear “out-¬of-office” reply, your submission was most likely not delivered. In that case, try to resend your message.