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INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW

Submission:
Papers must be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/insr. Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. If you require assistance, then click the Get Help Now link which appears at the top right of every ScholarOne Manuscripts page. If you cannot submit online, please contact the Editorial Project Officer, Liliana Pinkasovych, in the Editorial Office by e-mail  (@cbs.nl).

Language:
The language used must be either English or French.

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. If possible, include a summary in both English and French. Some key words in English should follow the English 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; costs of colour printing will be charged to the author.

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:

Kendall, M.G. & Stuart, A. (1977). The Advanced Theory of Statistics, 1, 4th ed. London: Griffin.

Fisher, R.A. (1934). Two new properties of mathematical likelihood. Proc.R. Soc. A, 144, 285-307.

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).

Proofs and Offprints:
The corresponding author will receive a pdf file of their proof which can be used to indicate corrections to be returned to the Editorial Office. To obtain information about additional optional offprints and their price, please contact Wiley-Blackwell.

Short Book Reviews
Books for review should be submitted to the Short Book Reviews Editor, Simo Puntanen, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy, FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland.

The International Statistical Review is published three times a year.

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