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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.

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Article types

Review
Book Review
Letter
Editorial
Original Article
Lectio
Perspective
Commentary
Review Article
Letter to the Editor
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review

Readiness requirements

Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.

Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Preparing Your Paper Guidelines for all papers submitted to JASA: Should be no more than 35 pages, including the title page, abstract, figures, tables, and references.
  • Preparing Your Paper Guidelines for all papers submitted to JASA: Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Abstracts - Each manuscript should contain an extended abstract of 200 words.
  • The manuscript must contain an abstract (see the abstracts paragraph, which follows) and from three to six key words or phrases that do not appear in the paper's title.
  • For the benefit of JASA's broad readership, the remainder of the abstract should amplify and illustrate, preferably using concrete examples and interesting special cases.
  • Do not cite references in the abstract.
  • Preparing Your Paper Guidelines for all papers submitted to JASA: Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; author footnote; abstract; keywords; article text (table(s); figures); acknowledgments; appendices; references.

Keywords

  • Provide 3-5 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Preparing Your Paper Guidelines for all papers submitted to JASA: Should contain between 3 and 5 keywords.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references in ASA style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • All traditional JASA ACS submissions that include novel statistical modeling and/or new method development, are limited to 35 pages, including tables, references, and figures.
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  • Authors should use BiBTeX to prepare references whenever possible.
  • Please use natbib.sty, and either plain.bst or apalike.bst to format references.
  • References All manuscripts should follow the style published in the ASA Style Guide.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.
  • Review / Review Article: Review articles are limited to 50 pages, including tables, references, and figures.
  • Tables and figures should appear in the body of the manuscript as soon as possible following their first reference, not in separate files nor at the end after the bibliography.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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  • Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
  • While the font in the body of your paper should be 12, make sure that the font size used for your tables and captions is also large enough to be easily read.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • Figures and Tables - Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals, and clearly titled and labeled.
  • Color illustrations will also be considered for print publication; however, the author will be required to bear the full cost involved in color art reproduction.
  • Do not submit two different sets of figure files.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Once an article is accepted for publication the author must supply figures in usable form; detailed guidelines for preparation of figures and tables are provided in the ASA Style Guide.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PDF, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • However, the following criteria must be met: The same figure must serve for both color and black and white.
  • However, the following criteria must be met: Figure captions and the text of the article must not refer specifically to any color.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Copyright - JASA is copyrighted, and authors must sign a copyright transfer to ASA before publication.
  • Using Third-Party Material in your Paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
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  • The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Add or confirm the author-written Author contributions statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.
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  • Please see our reproducibility guide for full details, including instructions for filling out the required Author Contributions Checklist and for verifying your submitted materials against the Reproducibility Pre-Submission Checklist.

Supplementary files

  • Lectio: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Letter: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
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  • Protocol: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Editorial: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Commentary: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Book Review: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Perspective: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Clinical Trial: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Review Article: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Original Article: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Systematic Review: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Letter to the Editor: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Embed or attach the author-supplied supplementary material so Articlo can extract and label it for the package.
  • Authors should use their best judgment in deciding what should be included in the manuscript and what should be in the supplementary material.
  • Long appendices should be submitted as supplementary material (see above section on supplements).
  • Authors should remove identifying author information from the code/data in supplemental material and/or in online repositories such as GitHub to the extent possible, but we recognize that doing so completely may not be feasible.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • To facilitate the review, the corresponding author should submit one anonymous file of the manuscript without the authors' names and institutions and one file with such identification.
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  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Specifically, we require submitters to upload a version formatted throughout with 12 point, fully double-spaced font (which we define as 26 lines of text per page).
  • The first 100 words should succinctly describe the paper's motivation and contribution.
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  • Art not supplied at a minimum of 300 dpi will not be considered for print.
  • These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Review: Appendices, proofs, and other supporting material should be placed in a separate supplement file (anonymized for review).
  • Every submission should provide: A description of how any data analyzed were collected and/or selected.
  • The research reported should be motivated by a scientific or practical problem and, ideally, illustrated by application of the proposed methodology to that problem.
  • Review: Reviews should be written at a moderate technical level and be accessible to a broad audience of researchers, practitioners, educators, and advanced students.
  • The conference paper must be properly cited in the journal version.
  • Authors will be required to submit the completed ACC Form along with relevant code and data together with their revised manuscript.
  • Do not use overbars extending over more than one character, or underbars.
  • Use boldface for each symbol representing a vector or a matrix (e.g., A).
  • Review: Copies of unpublished papers and technical reports cited in the manuscript and needed for review should be included with the submitted manuscript.
  • Supporting manuscripts should be submitted in the same manner.
  • For example, do not write "the blue line shows." Instead, use "the dashed line shows." or an equivalent.
  • Appendices - Lengthy technical portions of a manuscript should appear in a separate appendix to the manuscript.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Please use a clear directory/folder structure within the zip file to organize your reproducibility materials (perhaps mimicking the structure suggested in this template repository ).
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • LaTeX - Manuscripts submitted in LaTeX should use the "article" style and follow the formatting guidelines detailed in the following.
  • JASA requires that all papers be formatted for 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper, one side only, and in a sufficiently large font size and with sufficient margins to be easily read and reviewed.
  • The authors do not know the identities of the reviewers, and the referees do not know the names of the authors.
  • The VoR is the article in its final, definitive, and citable form (this may not be immediately paginated, but is the version that will appear in an issue of the journal).
  • Image Descriptions This journal requires image descriptions (alternative text, alt text), to be provided for all images conveying information necessary for an understanding of your work.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Statistical reporting

  • The journal submission should have new content, be written for a statistical audience, and not violate copyright.
  • Authors are reminded that, although statistical theory has its roots in mathematics, the phrase theory and methods should be interpreted broadly to include all techniques relevant to statistics and probability.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Study reporting guidelines

  • ACS welcomes a limited number of review papers with a 50-page limit on major data types and their applications (e.g., digital twins for complex systems, neuroimaging data analysis, omics data analysis, data integration for health care, causal decision making for health care, statistical foundation models for health care/e-commerce).
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Manuscript structure

  • Papers should be submitted to the JASA Reviews section.
  • Articles should report on completed research and should adequately compare methods with existing methods.
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  • Queries regarding submissions to the Theory and Methods section should be addressed to jasa.tm.asa@gmail.com.
  • General Comments on Style - Footnotes should be used rarely, and should not contain mathematical expressions.
  • Review: While illustrative examples or applications are encouraged when appropriate, the primary contribution of a review should be synthesis, perspective, and scholarly evaluation rather than the introduction of entirely new methodology.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.

Language and text style

  • Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
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  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Blinded manuscript

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Keywords: 3-5 keywords
References: ASA
Declarations: Author contributions, Artificial intelligence
Format: double spacing

Source transparency

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