Peer review

ASTIN Bulletin uses a single-blind peer review model. This means that the identity of the authors is known to the peer reviewers, but the identity of the peer reviewers is not known to the authors.

Receipt of the paper will be confirmed and followed by a refereeing process which will be handled by one of the editors. The editors aim to complete the refereeing of a submission in around three months.

Authors are encouraged to provide their data and code during the review process which will allow the handling editor to replicate the results. The preferred code for statistical analysis is either R or Python. For accepted papers data and code should be made available as supplementary material. Please review the ASTIN Bulletin’s research transparency policy.

The role of a referee is to assess the quality of the academic content of the paper. If a paper is sufficiently badly written to an extent that prevents a referee from forming a proper view of the paper’s scientific content or if it does not sufficiently meet the scope of ASTIN Bulletin, then the paper will be returned to the author unrefereed.