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Prepare your manuscript for The American Statistician.

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Article types

Review
Editorial
Viewpoint
Perspective
Letter
Book Review
Lectio
Letter to the Editor
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Word Limits A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 25 pages, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.

Keywords

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

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references in Harvard style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Footnotes and References Footnotes should be generally avoided, replaced with remarks in the text or placed in an appendix.
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  • References within the text should give the authors' names, followed by the year of publication in parentheses.
  • References should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript, after any appendixes but before any tables and figures.
  • References to books must include the publisher's name and location.
  • Style/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.
  • In this list, each reference should contain, in the following order, the last name and initials of the author followed by those of the coauthors, year of publication, title of reference, source, volume number, and page.

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.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
  • However, the same figure must serve for both color and black and white.
  • Do not submit two different sets of figure files.
  • Figure captions and the text of the article must not refer specifically to any color.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Data For purposes of reproducibility and for benefit of readers and referees, American Statistician requires authors to provide well-documented code that duplicates at least one table or figure of prominent empirical results from the paper.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.

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

  • Using Third-Party Material in your Paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Review: 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.
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  • 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

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • The Authors need to use their best judgment in deciding what should be included in the manuscript and what should be in the supplementary material.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • 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

  • They must be carefully checked and returned within 48 hours of receipt.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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  • Articles should be clearly written, address topics that are important for a broad group of statisticians, and ordinarily not be highly technical.
  • 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.
  • Software developers who wish to have their products reviewed should contact: Robert A.
  • For example, do not write "the blue line shows." Instead, use "the dashed line shows." or an equivalent.
  • Whenever a dataset is used, its source should be fully documented and the data should be made available as on online supplement.
  • Necessary comments or instructions on how to execute the computer programs should be provided.
  • The conference paper must be properly cited in the journal version.
  • 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 SI units (non-italicized).
  • Formatting and Templates LaTeX - Manuscripts submitted in LaTeX should use the "article" style and follow the formatting guidelines detailed in the following.
  • 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 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.
  • Do not abbreviate journal titles.

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.
  • Papers in this section should: and make TAS and the ASA in general more attractive to people who are “on the fringes” of statistics, but housed in various “nonstatistics” academic, professional, and scientific disciplines.
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  • Editorial: General: The following list illustrates examples of topics for articles in this section: The editorial board particularly desires to attract expository articles written for a general statistical audience on topics of current importance in areas including, but not limited to, the preceding list.

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.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Preparing Your Paper Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) and figure(s) and their captions placed within the text.

Language and text style

  • Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
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  • Authors may choose which coding language and which empirical results to reproduce, and they should ensure the code runs in reasonable time by choosing a subset of results to reproduce, if the code is computationally intensive.

Manuscript structure

  • Book publishers and developers of other items who wish to have their products reviewed in this section should contact the editor.
  • Papers in this section should: bring more domain-specific application knowledge to statisticians.
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  • When a footnote is absolutely necessary, please keep it brief and do not include mathematical expressions.
  • Whenever specific code has been used to implement or illustrate the results of a paper, that code should be made available if possible.
  • Articles reporting results based on computation should provide enough information so that readers can evaluate the quality of the results.
  • The range includes: An article for this section should state clearly the type of course in which the material is useful and it is desirable to discuss student reactions to the ideas presented.
  • 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.

Blinded manuscript

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

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
References: Harvard
Declarations: Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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