Call For Working Papers

Submissions are invited for the CSSS series of working papers to be issued on the CSSS web site. Papers should be submitted by a faculty member of CSSS, but may be authored by anyone. Submissions may be made at any time. Papers dealing with statistical research in the social sciences, or social science research that involves statistical analysis, are appropriate. Working papers issued on the CSSS web site may also be issued as working papers in other series, such as the CSDE Working Paper series and the Department of Statistics Technical Report series.

Here is the procedure to be followed:

  1. Send an e-mail message to me at sirakaya@stat.washington.edu saying that you would like to submit a paper for the working paper series; include a copy of your paper as an attachment in PDF, Postscript or Word format. I will review the paper very lightly for general suitability, but there will be no revision process. I will let you know quickly if the paper is appropriate for our series. If yes, I will also assign a working paper number.
  2. Prepare a final version of your paper for the web site. This should have a title page including the working paper number. A suggested format is that of the first working paper and the following files can be used as a template:
    wpXXhead.tex(3.5K bytes)
    wpXXhead.pdf( 54K bytes)
    The paper should be in either PDF or Postscript. The instructions for converting Word or LaTeX documents into PDF or Postscript files are below.
  3. Send the final version to the webmaster by email. He will put it up on the Web in a short time.

Sibel Sirakaya
Editor of the CSSS Working Paper Series.

Converting Documents to PDF or Postscript

In Word go to the file menu and select print. Then choose to print to a file and make sure that you have a postscript printer selected. You can then save the file to disk and this will be your postscript file. Some computers may have the option to print to a PDF file directly.

For LaTeX documents, assuming that your LaTeX file is called wp30.tex with corresponding dvi file wp30.dvi, you can execute the following commands:
dvips -Pwww -o wp30.ps wp30.dvi
ps2pdf wp30.ps
Then both the postscript and pdf files can be submitted. The "-Pwww" option makes sure that the pdf file is easy to view over the internet without affecting the quality of the printed output.