SORT is an international journal published by the Statistical Institute of Catalonia, appearing twice-yearly in English, and aiming for the highest standards in methodological and applied research on Statistics and Operations Research.
SORT is indexed in the "Science Citation Index Expanded" (Thomson Scientific) and described in the "Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences". The journal is also referenced in the "Current Index to Statistics", the "Índice Español de Ciencia y Tecnología", "Statistical Methods and Abstracts", and MathSci of the American Mathematical Society ("Current Mathematical Publications and Mathematical Reviews"). SORT represents the third series of the Quaderns d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa (Qüestiió), published by Idescat between 1992 and 2002, which in turn followed from the first series "Quaderns d'Estadística, Sistemas, Informàtica i Investigació Operativa" (1977-1992). The three series of Qüestiió have their origin in the "Cuadernos de Estadística Aplicada e Investigación Operativa", published by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya until 1977.
SORT accepts for publication only original articles that have not been submitted to any other journal in the areas of Statistics, Operations Research, Official Statistics and Biometrics. Articles may be either theoretical or applied, and may include computational or educational elements. Publication will be exclusively in English, with an abstract in Catalan (abstract translation into Catalan can be done by journal's staff).
All articles submitted to thematic sections will be forwarded for systematic peer review by independent specialists and/or members of the Editorial Board, except for those articles specifically invited by the journal or reprinted with permission. Reviewer comments will be sent to the primary author if changes are requested in form or content.
When an original article is received, the journal sends the author a dated receipt; this date will appear in the publication as “reception date”. The date in which its final version is received will be the “acceptance date”.
To submit an article, the author must send it in PDF format to the electronic address of the journal (sort@idescat.cat). The title page must contain the following items: title, name of the author(s), professional affiliation and complete address, and an abstract (75-100 words) followed by the keywords and MSC2000 classification of the American Mathematical Society. Before submitting an article, the author(s) would be well advised to ensure that the text uses correct English. Bibliographic references within the text must follow this format: author surname followed by the year of publication in parentheses [i.e., Mahalanobis (1936), Rao (1982b)], with complete reference citations listed alphabetically at the end of the article. Multiple publications by a single author are to be listed chronologically. Explanatory notes should be numbered sequentially and placed at the bottom of the corresponding page. Tables and figures should also be numbered sequentially and will be reproduced directly from the submitted originals if it is impossible to include them in the electronic text.
Once the article has been approved, the author must send a final electronic version, following the instructions of the editor responsible for that article. It is recommended that this final version be submitted using the LaTeX2ε.
In any case, upon request the journal secretary will provide authors with LaTeX2ε templates and appropiate references to the MSC2000 classification of the American Mathematical Society. For more information about the criteria for using this classification system, authors may consult directly the Mathematics Subject Classification 2000 (MSC2000) at the website of the Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya.
SORT Statistics and Operations Research Transactions
