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NEW THIS YEAR!You may publish in the Proceedings if you orally presented your paper at the JSM, regardless of whether an ASA Section sponsored your session. To maintain a uniform look and a more professional Proceedings CD-ROM, all papers must conform to the formatting requirements to be accepted. To help in this endeavor, the ASA has created a Word template and a LaTeX template (asaproc.cls and template.tex) for you to download and use. |
Copyright notice: Authors retain copyright on individual papers published in Proceedings. Eligible presenters are not prohibited from publishing in Proceedings as well as other publications; authors are advised to consult journal exclusivity agreements for restrictions.
The 2006 JSM Proceedings will be published in CD-ROM format only. Authors will submit their papers electronically to a web collection site (URL to be provided at a later date) that will open August 1, 2006.
Submit your paper at http://submissions.miracd.com/jsm2006/login.asp
Do not send your files to ASA.
Deadline
The web site will close to new submissions on Friday, October 20,
2006, at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Submit early. You can expect delays due to heavy volume around the deadline.
The submission site will remain open for revisions until Wednesday, November 15, 2006, at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Eligibility
Papers and posters must be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings or an
approved ASA-sponsored or outside conference to be authorized for publication
in the Proceedings. If your paper was withdrawn or not orally presented, it
is not eligible.
NEW THIS YEAR! You may publish in the Proceedings if you orally presented your paper at the JSM, regardless of whether an ASA Section sponsored your session.
Section-sponsored conferences that have been approved for publication (conferences will be added as they are approved):
6th International Conference on Health Policy Research (SRA)
Oct. 28-30, 2005ENAR Spring Meeting (BIOM)
March 26-29, 2006Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (BIOP)
May 22-24, 2005Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry, and Technology (SPES and Q&P)
June 7-9, 2006Fall Technical Conference (SPES)
October 12-13, 2006American Association for Public Opinion Research - AAPOR (SRMS)
May 18-21, 2006First Annual Conference on Quantitative Methods & Statistical Applications in Defense and National Security (SDNS) February 15-16, 2006
Page Charges
To help cover production costs, you are requested to pay an optional
page charge of $15 per page.
Paper Format and Page Limits
The Proceedings will be published in electronic format only. There are no margin
specifications.
Papers must be two-column, single-spaced, and fully justified (figures may span both columns, if necessary).
10-point Times New Roman is the preferred font.
Titles must appear at the top of the first page; span both columns; and be centered, bold, and in 12-point type.
Author name and affiliation should also span both columns; be centered directly below the title; and appear in regular, 10-point type.
Color graphics are acceptable.
Paper/Poster page limits:
Invited papers: 12 pages
Contributed papers: 8 pages
Discussant/panelist papers, posters: 3 pagesDo not put page numbers on your pages; these will be generated automatically.
NEW THIS YEAR! To maintain a uniform look and a more professional Proceedings CD-ROM, all papers must conform to the formatting requirements to be accepted. To help in this endeavor, the ASA has created a template for you to download and use.
Referencing Your Proceedings Paper
Following is a sample of the standard format for referencing your paper on CD
(page numbers are assigned by the vendor; users may search by author, title,
or Section):
Freund, R. J. (2001). "An Example of Prediction with Regression: a Comparison of Methods," 2001 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Statistical Computing Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association: pp-pp.
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