期刊名称：BIOSTATISTICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Among the important scientific developments of the 20th century is the explosive growth in statistical reasoning and methods for application to studies of human health. Examples include developments in likelihood methods for inference, epidemiologic statistics, clinical trials, survival analysis, and statistical genetics. Substantive problems in public health and biomedical research have fueled the development of statistical methods, which in turn have improved our ability to draw valid inferences from data. The objective of Biostatistics is to advance statistical science and its application to problems of human health and disease, with the ultimate goal of advancing the public's health.
Biostatistics publishes papers that develop innovative statistical methods with applications to the understanding of human health and disease, including basic biomedical sciences. Papers should focus on methods and applications. Introduction of original methodology should be grounded in substantive problems; authors also have the opportunity to present extensive analyses of data on the journal's website as supplementary data. Papers submitted for publication in Biostatistics should satisfy at least one of the following criteria:
- development of new stochastic models or statistical methodology clearly motivated by a substantive problem in health or biomedical sciences;
- innovative application of statistical methodology to address a substantive problem in health or biomedical sciences;
- critical review of an area of statistical methodology relevant to health or biomedical science applications, with a focus on practical utility;
- case studies based on important health or biomedical sciences data.
Instructions to Authors
New from July 1, 2005-OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS
Biostatistics publishes papers that develop innovative statistical methods with applications to the understanding of human health and disease, including basic biomedical sciences. Papers should focus on methods and applications. Introduction of original methodology should be grounded in substantive problems; authors also have the opportunity to present extensive analyses of data on the journal's website as supplementary materials.
Papers submitted for publication in Biostatistics should satisfy at least one of the following criteria:
- development of new stochastic models or statistical methodology clearly motivated by a substantive problem in health or biomedical sciences;
- innovative application of statistical methodology to address a substantive problem in health or biomedical sciences;
- critical review of an area of statistical methodology relevant to health or biomedical science applications, with a focus on practical utility;
- case studies based on important health or biomedical sciences data.
Preparation and Submission of Manuscripts
The editors of Biostatistics are committed to minimizing the time from submission to publication of excellent papers so that new methodology can influence rapidly-developing substantive specialties.
Only submissions in English will be considered. Authors who seek publication in Biostatistics should submit electronically to either Mary Joy Argo or Rosetta Lok as PDF, PS, or MS Word file attachments. If accepted for publication, the source files of the final version will be required, preferably in LaTeX or TeX; electronic figures can only be used if in TIF, PS or EPS format. These formats or the DVI derivatives should not be supplied for initial submission.
Paper submission is also welcome, in which case four copies are required. These can be sent to:
Scott L. Zeger
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Biostatistics
615 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205-2179
USA
OR
Peter J. Diggle
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster LA1 4YF
UK
Authors of submitted papers are required to declare potential conflicts of interests by completing the conflict of interest form.
It is possible to submit Supplementary Data that is not printed in the journal but can be viewed online. Further information on this can be viewed here.
Format of Manuscript
Papers should be typewritten and double-spaced (i.e. 3 lines per 25 mm); text width should be set to 146 mm and page depth to 215 mm. Only one side of each page should be used. The title page should include the name, affiliation and address of each author and a short abstract. The author to whom proofs should be sent should be marked as the corresponding author, with email address and telephone and fax numbers supplied.
Each section, including the introduction, should be numbered. Equations should be numbered (e.g. (2.1), (2.2) etc., within section 2), on the right hand side of the page. Non-standard notation should be explained in the text. Footnotes should be avoided. A list of tables and figure captions should be appended to the manuscript. Diagrams should be suitable for direct reproduction without major reduction.
References
References should be listed at the end of the manuscript in Harvard referencing style: authors' surnames, authors' initials, year of publication in parentheses, title of paper, journal title in full, volume number, and page numbers. Publish ahead of print articles can also be cited, using the digital object identifier (doi). The reference list should be arranged in alphabetical order and cited within the text by the author and year. In the text, no more than two authors can be cited per references; if there are more than two authors, use et al. Examples of different types of references are given below.
Article
KENWARD, M. G., MOLENBERGHS, G. AND THIJS, H. (2003). Pattern-mixture models with proper time dependence. Biometrika 90, 53-71.
Book
PEPE, M. S. (2003). The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chapter in Book
THOMAS, D. C. AND GAUDERMAN, W. J. (1996). Gibbs sampling methods in genetics. In Gilks, W. R., Richardson, S. and Spiegelhalter, D. J. (eds), Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice. London: Chapman and Hall, pp. 238-257.
Conference Proceedings (not published in book form)
OLSHEN, A AND VENKATRAMAN, E. (2002). Change-point analysis of array-based comparative genomic hybridization data. ASA Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, 2530-2535.
Advance Access (online but not yet printed)
OGDEN, R. T. and TARPEY, T. (14 July 2005). Estimation in regression models with externally estimated parameters. Biostatistics doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxi044.
Advance Access (online and printed)
BYTH, K. AND COX, D. R. (2005). On the relation between initial value and slope. Biostatistics 6, 395-403. First published on 14 April 2005, doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxi017.
References to manuscripts in preparation, or submitted, but not yet accepted, can be cited in the text as (Author and Author, in preparation) and should NOT be included in the list of references.
Color
The journal recognizes the usefulness of color usage and can publish manuscripts containing color figures or illustrations. This facility is free of charge to authors if the use of color is considered by the co-editors to be necessary in adding substantial scientific clarification and impact to the paper. In other cases, there is a charge for publishing in colour (US$600 per color figure) and authors will be asked to defray the cost for publishing these figures.
Figures containing color should be submitted only if they are intended to be printed in color. Please note that it is possible to have color figures posted online as supplementary material but published in the journal in grayscale to control cost.
Copyright and Offprints
It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive license to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the license agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance. Download the copyright license.
Authors of papers published in the journal will be entitled to a URL which will allow free online access to their paper. This URL will be sent to the corresponding author and may be distributed to all coauthors. Offprints and copies of the issue in which the article appears may be purchased if ordered on the form sent to the corresponding author with the proofs.
Advance Access
Biostatistics offers Advance Access online publication of articles with subscription-based access. When a paper is accepted for publication, a PDF of the paper can be posted almost immediately on the journal website, provided that a completed license to publish form is received by Oxford University Press from the authors. Advance Access also provides early official publication dates of accepted papers. See the Advance Access information page.
Author Self-Archiving/Public Access Policy from May 2005
For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving Policy page.
Editorial Board
CO-EDITORS:
ADVISORY BOARD:
Sir David Cox (chair)
Norman Breslow
Sarah Darby
Peter Diggle
Mitchell Gail
Niels Keiding
Scott Zeger
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