Author Guidelines
Guidelines on manuscripts to the Lithuanian Journal of Statistics
To make submission , authors should first register and log in. Also, the authors can send their manuscripts by e-mail to statisticsjournal@mif.vu.lt. However the authors are strongly encouraged to use the former option.
The journal accepts manuscripts written in Lithuanian or English. The length of the paper may be up to 15 pages size A4.
The papers submitted should be not published anywhere else or submitted to any other editorial board. The author should save the submitted version of his/her paper and be responsible for its safety.
Any article submitted should pass through initial assessment including cheking for technical quality and plagiarism and then the reviewing procedure by anonymous referees. Afterwards the editorial board makes the final decision on the publication of the paper.
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GUIDELINES ON MANUSCRIPTS (English)
GUIDELINES ON MANUSCRIPTS (Lithuanian)
I. Submitted matter. Each paper should include the following:
- title,
- title, name and surname of the author with the footnote containing institution, mail address, telephone and e-mail address for contacts,
- abstract in the language of the paper,
- 3-5 keywords in the language of the paper.
II. Contents of the paper. The paper should consist of the sections typical of the scientific paper. The paper should begin with the introduction in which the aim of the research is defined, object of the study is highlighted, the literature in the field of research is overviewed, and the methods used are described: methodology for practical work and problems as well as arguments for novelty of their solution and proofs for theoretical work. The paper is concluded with the summation of the reserach results, conclusions and the list of references.
III. The style of the manuscript should satisfy the usual requirements to the scientific papers and should have the following:
- the titles of the sections should be written in capital letters, numbered and centered,
- all the abbreviations should be unscrambled and used only after that,
- the words of languages other than the main language of the paper should be written in italics with the translation into the main language of the paper,
- the tables and figures should be numbered and have the titles,
- the displayed formulae should be numbered on the right-hand side.
IV. Abstract. The paper should have comprehensive abstracts in Lithuanian and English. If the author does not know Lithuanian, then he/she should present the abstract and keywords only in English, and they will be translated into Lithuanian by Editors. The abstract should be without formulae, footnotes, and citing.
V. References should be listed in alfabetic order by the author and chronologically for each author and be numbered. They should have full information needed for the reader. The title of the book or journal should be written in italics. The refernce is cited indicating its number in the square brackets, like this [2]. The example of the list of references includes the article in the journal, a book and an article in the collection of papers:
REFERENCES
1. Author, A. 1986: An important article., A Journal of Statistics and Probability, 10, p. 945-970.
2. Bookwriter, A. B. 1980: Title of the Book, City, Publisher.
3. Bookwriter A. B., and Author, A. 1999: Another important paper. In: Proceedings of the 4th Conference in Statistical Sciences, (ed. E. The editor), City, Publisher, p. 159–167