Writing Rules

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their submission's compliance with all of the following items. Submissions  that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to authors.

1.      The submission has not been previously published, or is being considered for publication in another journal.

2.      The submission file is in Portable Document Format (PDF) prepared in LaTeX (TEX) document file format.

3.      Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

4.      The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

5.      References should be listed in alphabetical order and should be in the following formats:

Cai, T. and Low, M. (2005). Non-quadratic estimators of a quadratic functional. The Annals of Statistics, 33, 2930-2956.

Meyer, Y. (1992). Wavelets and Operators. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Cox, D. (1969). Some sampling problems in technology. In New Developments in Survey Sampling (N.L. Johnson and H. Smith, Jr., eds.). Wiley, New York, 506-527.