期刊名称：JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The purpose of the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES) is to contribute to the development and use of statistical methods in the agricultural sciences, the biological sciences including biotechnology, and the environmental sciences including those dealing with natural resources. Applications of statistics in medicine are not covered, and applications will seldom involve human subjects. Published articles are expected to be of immediate and practical value to applied researchers and statistical consultants in these fields. Only papers addressing applied statistical problems will be considered. Interdisciplinary papers as well as papers that illustrate the application of new and/or important statistical methods using real data are strongly encouraged. Expository, review, and survey articles addressing broad-based statistical issues will be particularly valuable.
Instructions to Authors
Information for Authors
The Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES) publishes papers of immediate and practical value to applied researchers and statistical consultants in the agricultural sciences, the biological sciences (including biotechnology), and the environmental sciences (including those dealing with natural resources). Only papers that address applied statistical problems will be considered. Interdisciplinary papers as well as papers that illustrate the application of new and important statistical methods using real data are strongly encouraged.
For regular papers, a motivating example should be presented early in the paper. The statistical development should then be presented, and the results applied to the example. Expository, review, and survey articles addressing broad-based statistical issues are encouraged.
Presentation should be accurate, clear, and comprehensible to readers with a background in statistical applications. When necessary, detailed proofs, computer code, and other lengthy technical portions of a manuscript should be placed in an appendix so that they will not interfere with the primary focus on the paper, which is to be a discussion of the statistical methods and issues being addressed. Real data should almost always be used to illustrate the statistical applications being discussed.
Articles that have been previously published in a refereed journal or articles that are under review by another journal may not be submitted to JABES.
Important Note for NIH-funded Authors
Please note that it is the author's responsibility to comply with the requirements of NIH-funded work (e.g., posting the final version of an article on PubMed). Instructions on how to submit an article to PubMed using the NIH's manuscript submission system can be found at http://www.nihms.nih.gov. Authors will receive a PubMed ID number upon submission.
Submitting Manuscripts
JABES uses an online manuscript submission system. Authors who wish to submit a manuscript for consideration should go to http://jabes.allentrack.net/ and follow the instructions for authors posted there. For queries regarding submission, e-mail jabes@stat.sfu.ca.
Each manuscript should be completely double-spaced, with one-inch margins and 12-point size letters. The manuscript should contain an abstract (see the abstracts paragraph) and from three to six key words or phrases (that do not appear in the title) in alphabetical order. For published manuscripts, these key words will be used, in addition to the title, for indexing in BIOSIS, Current Index to Statistics, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences (CC/AB&ES), The Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Agricultural On Line Access (AGRICOLA), and Compumath Citation Index.
Manuscripts submitted in LaTeX should generally use the “article” style and should not use any special macros. Authors are encouraged to use the JABES set of style files provided by Ted Catchpole. These style files--and illustrative example files--can be accessed here. Please note that the ASA production office is unable to provide extensive technical support for these files.
Length of Manuscripts
Normally, papers exceeding 25 pages in the style described above will be returned to the authors by the editor without review. Please note that the page limits include the appendices, but not tables and figures. Papers appearing in the journal should rarely have more than six (6) tables or figures combined. Authors are strongly encouraged to be judicious in the use of tabular and graphical displays and should not combine what ought to be several tables or figures into very large single ones. Papers with an extreme number of tables and/or figures may be returned by the editor without review. It is recognized, however, that graphical depictions or images are essential for conveying the message in some substantive areas. In such circumstances, more figures than in the typical submission may be appropriate, and authors should note this explicitly in a covering letter. References to Web sites where additional figures, tables, or mathematical material (such as proofs) may be found are permitted.
Abstracts
Each manuscript should contain an abstract of about 200 words. Authors must pay great attention to the content and language of the abstract. The first part of the abstract should succinctly describe the manuscript’s motivation and statistical contribution. For the benefit of JABES’s broad readership, the remainder of the abstract should amplify and illustrate, preferably using concrete examples and interesting special cases.
General Comments on style
Do not use footnotes, and avoid abbreviations. References within the text should give the authors’ names, followed by the year of publication in parentheses.
Mathematical material in the manuscript should be set using standard mathematical typography. This is normally done using LaTeX (and its variants) or mathematical typesetting options such as the Equation Editor or MathType in Word. Please ensure that matrices and vectors are always set in bold.
Complicated exponentials should be represented by the symbol exp(). Fractions in the body of the text (and when possible in displayed expressions) and fractions occurring in the numerators or denominators of fractions should be written with the solidus--for example, (a + b)/(c + d). Specific comments on mathematical material are provided in the ASA Style Guide.
Figures and Tables
Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively at the top with Arabic numerals and clearly titled and labeled. Figures must be visually clear and capable of withstanding reduction. Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, authors should submit electronic files of all figures. The following formats are accepted: .PS, .EPS, .TIF, .BMP, .JPG, or .PCX. Other formats are also accepted; please contact the ASA production office with any questions.
Normally figures will be printed in gray scale or black and white. Color figures are extremely expensive to produce and JABES encourages authors to avoid color unless absolutely necessary. Extra page charges may be levied for color reproduction.
If color is absolutely necessary, the corresponding author must alert the editor upon submission. Figures that are submitted in nonessential color will be converted to black and white or grayscale in the print version.
Authors may submit figures that appear in black and white in the print version but in color in the online version. However, the following criteria must be met:
- The same figure must serve for both color and black and white. Do not submit two different sets of figure files.
- Figure captions and the text of the article must not refer specifically to any color. For example, do not write "the blue line shows . . ." Instead, use "the dashed line shows . . ." or an equivalent.
Detailed guidelines for preparation of figures and tables are provided in the ASA Style Guide.
Data and Programs
Real, current data should almost always be used to illustrate the statistical applications being discussed. The source of the data must be fully documented. When it is not practical to include the whole dataset in the paper, the paper should state how the complete dataset can be obtained. Exceptions for reasons of security or confidentiality may be granted by the Editor.
Authors are strongly encouraged to include with their submission the data analyzed, and copies of the computer programs used in the analysis, so that these can be accessed by readers of the journal. These will posted as supplemental files to the article.
References
References should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript after any appendices, but before any tables and figures. Each reference should contain, in the following order, the last name and initials of the author followed by those of coauthors, year of publication, title of reference, source, volume number, and page. Do not abbreviate journal titles. Reference to books must include the publisher’s name and location. Only list references actually cited in the text. The use of inessential, unpublished or obscure references is discouraged. Personal communications are listed in the text only. Other details for listing and citing references are given in the ASA Style Guide.
Electronic Files
Once a paper has been accepted for publication, the author will be asked to forward an electronic copy of at least the text. Therefore, in order to save time and expense, it is highly recommended that the original manuscript be created in the electronic format in which it will be sent. To save both the author and JABES editing time, we urge that electronic files be sent in formats according to the following order of preference:
- LaTeX (preferred) or TeX.
- Word or WordPerfect.
- All other formats, one copy in original format, one saved as ASCII text.
Supplemental Materials
Authors are encouraged to submit supplemental materials that are directly related to their papers. The supplements are subject to editorial review and approval. More information on supplements is available at http://pubs.amstat.org/page/supplements
Submitting Revised Manuscripts
Revised manuscripts that are resubmitted more than six months after the last action by the editor may be considered as new submissions.
Page Charges
To help defray the rising costs of publication, manuscripts published in JABES are subject to a voluntary page charge of $55 per printed page to be billed to the institution or granting agency supporting the research. The charge represents only a portion of the cost per page. If the charge is honored, 100 free offprints will be supplied.
Copyright
JABES is copyrighted and authors must sign a copyright transfer before their articles are published. U.S. government employees are exempt from this requirement if the work is part of their official duties. Authors will receive a copyright transfer form upon manuscript acceptance.
Note: As part of its copyright agreement, ASA grants JABES authors the right to place the final version of their manuscript on their own homepage or in a public digital repository, provided there is a link to the official journal site.
Please note that it is the author's responsibility to comply with the requirements of NIH-funded work (e.g., posting the final version of an article on PubMed). Instructions on how to submit an article to PubMed using the NIH's manuscript submission system can be found at http://www.nihms.nih.gov. Authors will receive a PubMed ID number upon submission.
If you have any questions of style or graphics questions, please contact Mattson Publishing Services at jabes@mattsonpublishing.com.
Editorial Board
Four copies of new manuscripts should be submitted by first class mail to:
Linda Young
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Biometry Department
103 Miller Hall
Lincoln NE 68583-0712 USA
Tel: +1 402/472-2903
Fax: +1 402/472-5179
E-mail: ljyoung@unlnotes.unl.edu
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