Submissions to the Stata Journal

We welcome submissions to the Stata Journal.

Please see the information on type of submissions, which should assist you in judging the appropriateness of your submission.

We prefer that articles be submitted in LaTeX. We have written Getting started with the Stata Journal which contains the Stata Journal document class and Stata output package along with examples for authors new to the Stata Journal.

ASCII and Word contributions will be accepted.

When submitting your article for review, please include the following:

Your article. (If you are submitting updated programs of software that previously appeared in the Stata Journal, you only need to send a sentence explaining the fix with the programs.)
All programs, do-files, and datasets used to generate output listings in your article.
If your article discusses a program (or programs) you wrote, also submit a "README.txt" file that contains the following information:
- Title of your article.
- A list of the authors and their affiliations.
- An email address for the person who will provide technical support.
- A list of all the files you want available for download.
Here is an example "README.txt" file.

Submissions should be sent to editors@stata-journal.com. Manuscripts will be acknowledged by the editor upon receipt. After a preliminary editorial review, articles will be sent to reviewers who have expertise in the subject of the article. The Stata Journal uses a blind review system. The review process generally takes 3–6 months. Authors may contact the editor at any time to check the status of their manuscript.

Submission to the Stata Journal is understood to imply that (a) what is identically or substantially the same material is not currently under review by another academic journal and (b) the authors will not submit such material to another journal before they receive a decision from the Stata Journal.

While you are waiting for a decision from the Journal, we are happy that you make available the same material via personal, institutional, or collective web sites as a draft or working paper (or the equivalent) in your field. Such material should be flagged as under review by the Stata Journal while that is the case. Papers published in the Stata Journal should not, however, be republished on such web sites. We are happy that you distribute copies of your paper as reprints or photocopies in standard academic fashion, so long as you do not infringe the commercial rights of StataCorp, the publisher of the Stata Journal.

Although the Stata Journal focuses on Stata-specific application of a general technique, the restriction above does not prohibit your submitting your technique to another journal with a different focus.

Please contact the editors if you have questions.

editors@stata-journal.com

Contact StataCorp

Contact service@stata-journal.com if you have questions about the Stata Journal.