Editor(s)

Managing Editor

Man Mohan

Advisory Editors

Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhari
M.M. Rao
Jagdish N. Srivashtava
C.R. Rao
Bhu Dev Sharma

Associate Editor

Ibrahim Ahmad
Debasis Kundu
Ashish Sengupta
Richard A. Davis
Dennis Lin
Murari Singh
Nader Ebrahimi
Mounir Mesbah
Muni S. Srivastava
Joseph Gardiner
Ram C. Tiwari
Pulak Ghosh
Sudhir R. Paul
Daniel Voss

Chief Editor

Sudhir Gupta
Ravindra Khattree
Sanpei Kageyama

Volume 6 Issue 3-4 Comb. 2012

Construction of Mating Plans for Breeding Experiments using Generalized Incomplete Trojan-Type Designs by Cini Varghese and Seema Jaggi

The Journal of Statistics and Applications (JSA) is published Quarterly. It publishes research and expository material about new developments in probability, statistics and their applications in medical,agricultural, econometric, physical or social sciences, industry, commerce and government. Special Topics sections will appear frequently under “Scatter Thoughts” to focus attention on thought provoking issues that may affect statistics or on which statistics can make major impact in future. The topics discussed must appeal to a wider and general audience. Thoughtful letters in response to these special articles are also invited.

Submitting Articles to  JSA

The editors of JSA strongly prefer all articles submissions as PDF files (printable on 8.5 x 11 size paper). Please submit a blinded, as well as an unblinded version to facilitate the review. A submission should be sent via Email (or mail two hardcopies and a disk containing the submitted paper) to one of the Chief Editors. A condition of submission is that the manuscript has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere.

It is preferred that you create your text in TEX/LaTEX (using “article” style) or Microsoft Word using 12-point Times New Roman type throughout. Boldface the title, headings and sub-headings, all in upper/lower type without using any italics or underlines. The title, numbered equations and tables, should be centered. Everything else must be aligned to the left without any indent. A double space above and below all headings is required.

While submitting hardcopies any photographs or illustrations must not include cuttings from printed matter or photocopies of any sort, as they are unsuitable for reproduction.

The main body of the article should be divided by appropriate numbered section and subsection headings (e.g., 1. Introduction, 2.1 Analysis of data), all in upper/lower bold type and aligned to the left. An Acknowledgment section may be included at the end of the article (before references list), to acknowledge financial assistance, assistance by individual colleagues, and any other pertinent information.

Manuscripts must generally be organized in the following manner:

(i) Title (bold face) and Author name(s) only [centered], (ii) Abstract and Key Words [centered], (iii) Article Text, (iv) Acknowledgments, (v) References, (vi) Appendices, (vii) Tables, (viii) Figures, and (ix) About the Author(s).

All references in the text must be cited by author surname and date, like (Smith, 1993) or Smith (1985b).Please list all the cited references at the end of the article, in alphabetical order of the surnames (writing initials first followed by the surnames), strictly in accordance with the Journal:

R. Kay. A Markov model of analyzing cancer markers and disease state in survival studies. Biometrics, 4Z:855-871, 1986.

E. von Collani. Neyman Exclusion Procedure. Econ. Qua/. Control, 15: 15-34, 2000.

Book:

F.N. David. Games, Gods and Gambling. Charles Griffin, London, 1962.

Contribution to a Book:

V. Girardin. On the different extensions of the ergodic theorem of information theory. In : Glaz and H. Gzyl ed. Applied Probability-Recent Advances. Kluwer, 2004.

Figures, charts and diagrams should be submitted in a form suitable for photographic or electronic reproduction. As a last section, please provide brief information about each contributing author including his/her current affiliation(s) and an email address. Finally, the contact details (including postal address etc) of the corresponding author must be mentioned at the bottom-left corner of the last page. Please use courier new type phase for all E-mail or web addresses.

The corresponding author will receive galley proofs as a PDF file via E-mail. This will enable the author to read and point out any corrections to be made. In general, the corresponding author of each article will receive a PDF file of the final print form of the article as an E-mail attachment. The same shall also be uploaded on the web page of the publishers, viz. www.mdppl.com from where the paper can be downloaded and printouts taken freely.

Special  JSA Rates & Page Charges Policy for Authors

Authors can get an issue of  JSA free in which his/her paper appears: Author of a paper published in JSA can get a copy of the issue of JSA in which his/her paper appears, by paying a nominal charge of Rs. 250.00 (from within India) or US$ 25.00 or equivalent (from outside India) to cover handling and shipping charges by Courier/Air. Requests for these, with bank-cheques (no personal cheques) of appropriate amount drawn in the name of “MD Publications Pvt Ltd” and made payable at New Delhi must be sent at the address : MD Publications Pvt Ltd, (Unit: JSA), “MD House”, 11 Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002, India. E-mail :  contact@mdppl.com

Voluntary Page Charges Policy and Free Offprints : To defray partly the cost of publishing and editing of the journal, authors of papers accepted for publication are requested to honor voluntary page charges at the rate of Rs. 100.00 (from authors within India) or US$ 30.00 (from authors outside India) per printed page. Authors honoring page charges will get 40 reprints/offprints (without cover) of their articles free of cost. Those honoring voluntary page charges will please write to the Managing Editor (manmohan@indianshm.com) after receiving the proofs. On request an invoice will be sent by Managing Editor as an E-mail attachment ordinarily. Page charges, through bank- cheques (no personal cheques) in the name of   “ Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics” and made payable at Meerut, must be sent at: Laxhmi N. Sharma, Treasurer, F.I.M., (Unit:JSA), 8/118, Sector 3, Sahibabad 201005, U.P., India. E-mail :  sonusharma20022001@yahoo.com