Information for Authors

1. General: The Editors encourage prospective authors to submit manuscripts within the scope of Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (AISM). To qualify for publication, papers must be previously unpublished and not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The accepted language is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Rejected manuscripts will not normally be returned to authors.
2. Copyright: Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer their copyright to the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. Transfer of copyright becomes effective when the article is accepted for publication. Copyright guidelines will be sent to authors at the time of acceptance.
3. Submission of Papers: Submission of papers electronically is encouraged. It is recommended to use the AISM style file for LaTeX2e, http://www.ism.ac.jp/editsec/aism/aism-style.zip.
• Electronic submissions Papers submitted electronically should be sent to as attachments in either pdf or postscript formats. The authors should ensure that the submitted files have been correctly converted to the desired format. E-mails without a text message and a subject header will not be accepted. Authors should include a clear statement that the paper is being submitted to AISM, and the corresponding author's e-mail and postal addresses. Do not submit LaTeX files until acceptance. After the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to provide them.


• Hard copy submissions Four hard copies of a manuscript with a cover letter should be sent to
  Editorial Office,
  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics,
  10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa,
  Tokyo 190-8562, JAPAN.
  Authors should include a clear statement that the paper is being submitted to AISM, and the corresponding author's e-mail and postal addresses. The receipt date of the paper corresponds to the arrival date of the manuscript and cover letter in the Editorial Office.


4. Manuscripts should be produced using word-processors in double or triple spacing on one side of A4 size (210 x 297mm) or of US letter size (8 1/2 x 11 in) good quality white paper, with wide margins. The manuscript should be arranged as follows: (1) title page, (2) abstract, keywords, (3) text, (4) acknowledgements (when appropriate), (5) appendices (if necessary), (6) references, (7) tables and (8) figures. All pages should be numbered. The maximum length of the manuscript should not normally exceed 30 pages. The Editors reserve the right to refuse to receive manuscripts that have excessive lengths or have overstuffed pages with immoderately small fonts.
5. The title page should include the article title, the authors' names, the authors' affiliations and addresses, and any necessary footnotes. Authors' present addresses, if different, should be footnoted. The title should be brief, clear and informative of the contents of the paper. A proposed running head of less than 45 characters and spaces should be included in the footnote. For co-authors, it is desirable to indicate in the last footnote the author to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent, otherwise they will be sent to the first-named author.
6. Abstract: Each manuscript should be preceded by an abstract of no more than 150 words in a single paragraph. The abstract should state results in such a way that the reader can evaluate their significance. References should not be cited in the abstract.
7. Keywords: Immediately after the abstract no more than ten key words or phrases are to be supplied to represent the subject matter of the paper.
8. The text should be reasonably subdivided into sections and subsections as necessary. In the text, footnotes should be avoided.
9. References: In the text, each reference is cited by the last name(s) of author(s) and the year of publication in parentheses shown below. If two or more publications are listed for the same author(s) in the same year, distinguish them by a,b,c, etc. after the year.
   
   One author: Fisher (1932), Brown (1985, 1986), Hall (1978a, b)
   Two authors: Johnson and Kotz (1982)
   Three or more authors: Davis et al. (1977)
   
   All the references should be listed at the end of the text in alphabetical order by the last name of the authors, or of the first-named author for co-authors references. Multiple entries for the same author(s) should be arranged chronologically. Names of journals must be spelled out completely and no abbreviations used unless that is the actual title of the journal. References should include the year of publication, full title, source, volume number, and inclusive page numbers according to the following style:

   Journal :

   Akaike, H. (1974). A new look at the statistical model identification. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, AC-19, 716-723.

   Book :

   Feller, W. (1966). An introduction to probability theory and its applications. Vol.2. New York: Wiley.

   Edited book :

   Akaike, H. (1998). On a zero-one process and some of its applications. In E. Parzen, K. Tanabe and G. Kitagawa (Ed.) Selected papers of Hirotugu Akaike (pp. 29- 36). New York: Springer.

   Technical report :

   Ogata, Y. (2001). Slip-size dependent renewal processes and Bayesian inferences for uncertainties, Research Memo., No.820, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo.

10. Tables: Tables should be restricted to the minimum necessary. They should be typed on separate sheets and must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance. A brief descriptive title should be typed above each table. Any necessary footnotes in tables should be indicated directly below them by reference marks or by superscript lowercase letters. The approximate places of tables for their insertion should be indicated in the manuscript.
11. Figures: All illustrations are to be regarded as figures and they should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance. Figures must be of a quality suitable for direct reproduction. In some cases, the authors will be requested to offer professional artwork if the paper is accepted. The number of figures is to be restricted as much as possible.
12. Equations: Only the equations to which reference is made in the text should be numbered consecutively at the righthand margin by enclosing in parentheses as (1), (2), etc.
13. Symbols: All mathematical expressions should be typewritten and selected to simplify the typesetting process. Special care should be taken to distinguish between capital and lowercase letters, between the numeral one "1" and the letter "l", between zero "0" and the letter "o" etc., whenever confusion might result.
14. Proofs: Page proofs will be supplied by the publisher directly to the corresponding author. These should be corrected and returned within 48 hours of receipt; otherwise the paper might be published without the author's proofreading. No substantial changes by the author will be accepted at this stage of proofreading, except where advance permission has been obtained from the Editorial Committee. Costs arising from changes in proof, other than of printer's errors, will be charged to the authors.
15. Page charges and Reprints: There will be no page charge. Thirty reprints of each paper will be supplied free of charge. Additional copies may be purchased from the publisher and should be ordered when the proofs are returned. Orders after publication cannot be filled at regular reprint prices.

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