International Statistical Review

Author Guidelines

OnlineOpen – Wiley’s Open Access Option

Choosing OnlineOpen makes your article open access and freely available to all on Wiley Online Library, including those who don’t subscribe to the journal. OnlineOpen fulfils funding agency mandates that require grantees to archive the final version of their article. Wiley will also immediately deposit your OnlineOpen article in PubMed Central and PMC mirror sites. The cost for OnlineOpen is US$3,000, which can be paid by the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution.

Submission
From now on, all submissions to the journal must be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/insr. Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. If you require assistance, then click the Get Help Now link which appears at the top right of every ScholarOne Manuscripts page. If you cannot submit online, please contact the Editorial Office Coordinator, Liliana Happel, in the Editorial Office by e-mail (l.happel@cbs.nl). Papers must not be under consideration by another journal at the time of submission and should not be longer than 30 pages with 1.5 spacing or 40 pages with double spacing, including figures, tables, and references.

Language
The language used must be either English or French.

Layout
Please follow the arrangements in a recent issue for sections, headings, equations, tables and references. Manuscripts should be in type not smaller than 12 characters per inch, double spaced. The name and full postal address of each author should be given below the title of the paper. Footnotes should be avoided except for tables.

Summaries and key words
Papers must include a summary that consists of one paragraph with minimum mathematical expressions. If possible, include a summary in both English and French. Some key words in English should follow the English summary.

Figures and Tables
The figures and tables are to be referred to in the text by number, not by page or indication such as  “below” or “above”. Before the paper is sent to the printer, illustrations must be presented as high quality laser-printed computer output; costs of colour printing will be charged to the author.

Colour Charges: It is the policy of International Statistical Review for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Wiley-Blackwell require you to complete and return a Colour Work Agreement Form  before your paper can be published. In the event that an author is not able to cover the costs of reproducing colour figures in colour in the printed version of the journal, International Statistical Review offers authors the opportunity to reproduce colour figures in colour for free in the online version of the article (but they will still appear in black and white in the print version). Any article received by Wiley-Blackwell with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned. If you are unable to access the internet, or are unable to download the form, please contact the Production Editor at jsotoya@wiley.com. Please send the completed form to the Production Editor.

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References
The list at the end should correspond to those in the text; they should be arranged alphabetically, and for the same author chronologically. Use, a, b, c etc. to separate publications of the same author in the same year. Abbreviate names of journals according to Mathematical Reviews. Examples of references:

Fisher, R.A. (1934). Two new properties of mathematical likelihood. Proc. R. Soc. A,  144, 285–307.

Kendall, M.G. & Stuart, A. (1977).  The Advanced Theory of Statistics,  1, 4th ed. London: Griffin.

Monin, A.S. (1963). Stationary and periodic time series in the general circulation of the In atmosphere. Proceedings of the Symposium on Time Series Analysis, Ed. M. Rosenblatt, pp. 144–151. New York: Wiley.

References in text should be indicated in either of the two ways used in the following examples ‘… as discussed by Hennequin & Tortrat (1965) …’ or  ‘… as discussed previously (Hennequin & Tortrat, 1965) …’. If part of a reference is indicated please specify after the reference, e.g. Feller (1966,  X.4), or Fisher (1934, p. 293).

Proofs and Offprints
The corresponding author will receive a pdf file of their proof which can be used to indicate corrections to be returned to the Editorial Project Officer. To obtain information about additional optional offprints and their price, please contact Wiley-Blackwell.

The International Statistical Review is published three times a year.

Copyright
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

For authors signing the Exclusive Licence Form
If the OnlineOpen option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) to sign. The terms and conditions of the ELF can be previewed below:

ELF Terms and Conditions http://otis.wiley.com/otis/journal/overview/en/6021/INSR_ELF.pdf. Please do not complete this PDF until you are prompted to login into Author Services as described above.

Note to Contributors on Deposit of Accepted Version
Funder arrangements
Certain funders, including the NIH, members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust require deposit of the Accepted Version in a repository after an embargo period. Details of funding arrangements are set out at the following website: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement. Please contact the Journal production editor if you have additional funding requirements.

Institutions
Wiley has arrangements with certain academic institutions to permit the deposit of the Accepted Version in the institutional repository after an embargo period. Details of such arrangements are set out at the following website: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement

For authors choosing OnlineOpen
If the OnlineOpen option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):

Creative Commons Attribution License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.

If you select the OnlineOpen option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.

Read papers as soon as they publish online with Early View
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition of this journal is published.

Pre-Submission English Language Editing
Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. Japanese authors can also find a list of local English improvement services at http://www.wiley.co.jp/journals/editcontribute.html. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.

Short Book Reviews
Books for review should be submitted to the Short Book Reviews Editor, Simo Puntanen, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy, FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland.