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Notes for Authors
Statistical Methods in Medical Research has six issues per year.
Two of these issues are made up of research papers and reviews relevant to the use of statistical methodology in medical research. We are inviting submissions of papers on any relevant topic. Papers will be fully peer reviewed, but this will be done as speedily as possible.
The remaining four issues each contain four to five papers discussing various aspects of a single overall topic. The papers for these issues are commissioned by either the editor in chief or one of the editors, or by a guest editor. Papers for these issues are also refereed in the usual way.
Information for authors is available on this web page:
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Please submit an electronic version of your paper to:
Professor Brian S Everitt at
b.everitt@iop.kcl.ac.uk or brian.everitt@btinternet.com
If this is not possible, send three copies of the paper to the address below:
Professor Brian S Everitt, PO Box 20
Biostatistics Department
Institute of Psychiatry
De Crespigny Park
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 8AF
UK
Email: b.everitt@iop.kcl.ac.uk
The editors of the journal welcome proposals for a whole issue from people willing to act as guest editors for an issue. The proposal should demonstrate the need for an issue on the topic being suggested and list potential contributors.
All material submitted for publication is assumed to be exclusively for Statistical Methods in Medical Research, and not to have been submitted for publication elsewhere. All authors must assign copyright to SAGE Ltd. (by completing the copyright assignment form).
Priority and time of publication are decided by the editors, who maintain the customary right to edit material accepted for publication if necessary.
Aims of the journal
The aim of the journal is to publish both reviews of the way particular statistical methods are (and could be) employed within medical research, and accounts of innovative methodological developments or applications. The latter, although not review papers per se, should include an introduction that acts as as a brief overview of the area to be discussed. Both types of paper should include a motivating example or, in some cases, several examples and should be written to be accessible to a broad audience. This implies that material of a very technical nature should be relegated to an appendix.
The following papers, which have appeared in previous issues, might be taken as good examples of what the journal is aiming for:
Hudgens MG, Gilbert PB and Self SG. 2004; 13: 89-114.
Zhou H. 2006; 15: 181-194.
Please take the time to read the following information carefully to ensure that your paper is produced quickly and effectively.
Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced on one side of the sheet only. Margins should be at least 40mm on the left-hand side and 10mm on the right-hand side of the sheet.
Authors should include their name and initials, their affiliations, and their address for correspondence with telephone and fax numbers and email address. For papers with several contributors, the order of authorship should be made clear and the 'responsible author' (to whom proofs and
e-prints will be sent) named.
Papers should be around 8000 words or 20-25 pages of A4 or 8½ x 11" paper in length. In order to keep each issue to a reasonable size, this length should not be exceeded if possible. Any diagrams or tables should be counted as equivalent to around 200 words or half a page of text. The editor should be informed if this is likely to be a problem.
An abstract of up to 200 words and a selection of keywords should precede the text. Any acknowledgements will be printed at the end of the text.
Submission of final manuscript
Your paper should be submitted both as a hardcopy and in electronic form.
Please ensure that this matches the final version of your paper - as approved by the Editor.
Electronic versions
LaTex and Microsoft Word are the preferred formats, but files can be accepted from any common word processing program. RTF or ASCII files can also be accepted. PDF files should only be supplied in addition to source files. PDF files alone are not acceptable. No artwork should be included in the text files. Any artwork provided on disk should be in either TIFF, or EPS format. Each piece of artwork should be saved as a separate file.
When preparing your paper:
" Use the minimum formatting.
" Roman, bold and italic type can be used, but use only one typeface and size.
" Capitals should be used only where they are to appear in the finished text.
" The text should be ranged left and unjustified, with hyphenation cancelled.
" Indents, underlining and tabs should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
" Headings and paragraphs should be separated by two carriage returns.
" There should be only one space between words and only one space after any punctuation.
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 should follow the Oxford Dictionary.
Mathematical:
All vectors and matrices should be shown in bold type.
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).
Tables and illustrations
These should be submitted separate from the text. Line drawings should be black and white. The figure title should be supplied on a separate sheet. Figures should ideally be produced for a reduction of one third i.e. 3:2 or 150:100 mm.
References
The Vancouver style* should be followed for references which should be numbered in order of appearance in the text, marked by superscript numbers after the key phrases. The references are then listed in full at the end of the article in numerical order.
* International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. JAMA 1993; 269: 2282-86.
Journal article:
Cleveland WS. Graphs in scientific publications. The American Statistician 1984; 38: 361-69.
Journal titles should be stated in full. List surnames and initials of up to and including six authors (with more than six authors only give the first three then 'et al'.).
Book:
Ehrenberg ASC. Data reduction: analyzing and interpreting statistical data. New York: John Wiley, 1975: 110-12.
Chapter in book:
Gabriel KR. Multivariate graphics. In: Kotz S, Johnson NL eds. Encyclopedia of statistical sciences. New York: John Wiley, 1985.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain written consent from the original publisher and author(s) to use any material published previously elsewhere. Please forward all correspondence with your manuscript.
E-Prints. Access to 25 free e-prints will be provided; the corresponding author will receive a maximum of five complimentary copies of the journal.
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