期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Instructions to Authors
1) Papers must be in English (or French). Authors in Japan please note that upon request, Elsevier Science Japan will provide authors with a list of people who can check the English of the paper (before submission). Please contact our Tokyo office: Elsevier Science Japan, 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Tel: (03)-5561-5032, Fax: (03)-5561-5045. Write in a concise manner. Referees will be asked to consider the value of the paper relative to its length.
(2) Submission of a paper implies that it contains original work that has not previously been published and that is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Publication in a limited distribution "Proceedings" does not disqualify a paper. If the author has published similar findings elsewhere, please cite and explain how the current paper differs.
(3) An author wishing to submit a paper to the IJF should select one of the four editors and submit FOUR copies of the paper to that person. See addresses on the inside front cover of each issue. The editors do not accept any responsibility for damage or loss of papers submitted.
(4) Submission of accepted papers as electronic manuscripts, i.e., on disk with accompanying manuscript, is encouraged. Electronic manuscripts have the advantage that there is no need for rekeying of text, thereby avoiding the possibility of introducing errors and resulting in reliable and fast delivery of proofs. The preferred storage medium is a 5.25 or 3.5 inch disk in MS-DOS format, although other systems are welcome, e.g., Macintosh (in this case, save your file in the usual manner; do not use the option 'save in MS-DOS format'). Do not submit your original paper as electronic manuscript but hold on to disk until asked for this by the Editor (in case your paper is accepted without revisions). Do submit the accepted version of your paper as electronic manuscript. Make absolutely sure that the file on the disk and the printout are identical. Please use a new and correctly formatted disk and label this with your name; also specify the software and hardware used as well as the title of the file to be processed. Do not convert the file to plain ASCII. Ensure that the letter 'I' and digit '1', and also the letter 'O' and digit '0' are used properly, and format your article (tabs, indents, etc.) consistently. Characters not available on your word processor (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should not be left open but indicated by a unique code (e.g. gralpha, , @, etc., for the Greek letter  ). Such codes should be used consistently throughout the entire text; a list of codes used should accompany the electronic manuscript. Do not allow your word processor to introduce word breaks and do not use a justified layout. Please adhere strictly to the general instructions below on style, arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of the journal.
(5) Double space everything. Type on one side only. Use wide margins.
(6) The first page should contain the title of the paper and each author's name, affiliation, address and telephone and fax numbers and email address.
Correspondence will be with the first author unless requested otherwise.
(7) The second page should give only a brief descriptive title.
(8) The third page should contain an abstract of not more than 150 words. Summarize the principal findings and how they were obtained.
Explain why the findings are important for researchers and for practitioners. Be specific.
(9) Keywords (at least five) should also appear on the third page. Authors are recommended to examine their keywords in the light of the master index published in the International Journal of Forecasting, vol. 10 (1994), 609-641.
(10) Provide a biographical sketch of not more than 100 words for each author.
(11) Start the paper on the fourth page; do not relist title or authors.
(12) Use major and minor headings to aid readability. Headings should be short. Side headings should be underlined. Paragraph headings should be underlined, followed by a colon.
(13) Footnotes should be kept to a minimum. If used, they should be numbered consecutively and placed after the references.
(14) References should include only relevant sources, presumably those which add further evidence or clarify the methodology. In the text, references should appear for paper as "Klein (1984)", or for books as "Box & Jenkins (1970, p. 245".) At the end of the manuscript, the references should be listed alphabetically by surname of the first author. Use the following format:
For articles: Armstrong, J.S. & Collopy, F. (1992). Error measures for generalizing about forecasting methods: Empirical comparisons, International Journal of Forecasting, 8, 69-80.
For books: Cook, T.D. & Campbell, D.T. (1979). Quasi-Experimentation, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
For collective works: Kahneman, D. & Tversky, A. (1982). Intuitive prediction: Biases and corrective procedures. In: D. Kahneman et al. (Eds.), Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, pp. 414-421.
Authors should ensure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the authors' names (years) in the text and those in the reference list.
(15) In general, only published papers should be cited. If unpublished, indicate how copies may be obtained.
(16) Use simple notation. Our readership crosses many disciplines. Avoid unusual symbols and Greek letters if possible.
(17) If mathematical derivations are needed, put them in an Appendix.
(18) Quotations should be kept to a minimum. Authors must obtain written permission from the publisher to use a quotation that exceeds 250 words.
(19) Tables and Figures should be placed on separate pages. Figures should be photoready with descriptive headings. Provide explanatory labels for the rows and columns of a table. Place tables and figures at the end of the paper, and mark the number, title of paper, and name of author on the back. Illustrations that have to be redrawn by the publisher will be charged to the author.
(20) Simplify the presentation of data! Round data to no more than three digits. Organize tables and charts to aid understanding.
(21) Authors should fully disclose their methods and data. Due to space limitations, it is often advisable to provide the data to the editors separately to put on file. The standard format for providing data is an EXCEL spreadsheet. The disclosure of data will be considered in the decision of whether to publish the paper. Upon acceptance the datasets of published papers will be posted on the IIF website: http://www.forecasters.org. Tell readers how to obtain additional details.
(22) Evidence of prior peer review is helpful, such as a listing of the occasions on which this paper has been presented, and a list of colleagues who have reviewed the paper.
(23) Authors are invited to provide names, addresses, and fields of interest of 4 to 6 persons outside their own institution who are qualified to act as referees. We will try to use at least one of these as a referee.
(24) Authors whose papers are accepted must send the final version on disk along with two hardcopies produced from the final version.
(25) Author enquiries: For enquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission where available) please visit the Author Gateway from Elsevier at http://authors.elsevier.com. The Author Gateway also provides the facility to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article's status has changed, as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions and more. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication.
(26) Page proofs will be sent to the (first) author. Please proofread carefully. Corrections other than printer's errors may be charged to the author. 25 reprints of each paper are supplied free of charge; additional reprints are available at cost if they are ordered when the proof is returned.
Editorial Board
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| Rob. J Hyndman |
Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia, Tel: +61-3-9905-2358, Email: ijf@buseco.monash.edu.au
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Editors:
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| Michael P. Clements |
Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK, Email: m.p.clements@warwick.ac.uk
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| Fred Collopy |
Information Systems Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106-7235, USA, Email: collopy@cwru.edu
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| Jan G. De Gooijer |
Department of Quantitive Economics, University of Amsterdam, Roetstraat 11, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Email: j.g.degooiger@uva.nl
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| Bonnie K. Ray |
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA, Email: bonnier@us.ibm.com
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Associate Editors:
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| M. Adya |
Marquette University, USA
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| J.S. Armstrong |
University of Pennsylvania, USA
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| R. Baillie |
Michigan State University, USA
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| C. Brooks |
Reading University, UK
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| L.D. Brown |
Georgia State University, USA
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| L.R. Carter |
University of Oregon, USA
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| D. Croushore |
University of Richmond, USA
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| A. Diamantopolous |
University of Vienna, Austria
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| D. van Dijk |
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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| R. Fildes |
Lancaster University, UK
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| P.H. Franses |
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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| A. Garcia-Ferrer |
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
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| P. Goodwin |
University of Bath, UK
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| W. L. Gorr |
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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| J. Guerard Jr. |
Chatham, NJ, USA
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| R.D.F. Harris |
University of Exeter, UK
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| N. Harvey |
University College, London
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| D.F. Hendry |
University of Oxford, UK
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| P. Kennedy |
Simon Fraser University, Canada
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| A.B. Koehler |
Miami University, USA
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| V. Kumar |
University of Connecticut, USA
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| K. Lahiri |
State University of New York, USA
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| M. J. Lawrence |
University of New South Wales, Australia
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| S. Makridakis |
INSEAD, France
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| B.D. McCullough |
Drexel University, USA
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| N. Meade |
Imperial College, UK
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| M. O'Connor |
University of New South Wales, Australia
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| L.E. Oller |
Statistics Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
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| D. Onkal |
Bilkent University, Turkey
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| J. K. Ord |
Georgetown University, USA
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| R.L. Schultz |
University of Iowa, USA
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| H.O. Stekler |
George Washington University, USA
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| N.R. Swanson |
Rutgers University, USA
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| J. Taylor |
Oxford University, UK
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| G. Wright |
Strathclyde Graduate Business School, UK
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