After a proposal is posted, it can only be revised during an official proposal revision period. The proposal revision period is usually two weeks in length, and begins the day after the comment period has ended. To find out the proposal revision period for the study that you are interested in, click on the "Calendar and Deadlines" link for that study in the header of the Online Commons pages.

Limiting proposal revisions to the official proposal revision period is primarily for the convenience of readers, as it limits the number of times persons have to read each proposal.

How do I submit a proposal revision?

During an official proposal revision period (see above) the ANES staff will post a final, revised version of your proposal for you. In this revision, you can consider comments that were made on your proposal or other feedback you received. You can make any other change that you like at that time as well. Receiving comments is not required in order to revise your proposal.

To submit a proposal revision, follow the same rules as in the How to Submit a Proposal document, emailing the revised proposal to anes-proposals@electionstudies.org. Make sure to refer to the original 50-character proposal title and list all of the usernames of the authors. The only difference is that when you submit a revision, please note in the email that it is a revision of an existing proposal.

Is there any way to revise my proposal before the official proposal revision period?

Prior to the official proposal revision period for a study, rather than re-posting your entire proposal, you may post comments on your own proposal (as a "reply") indicating what changes you intend to make when the official proposal revision period arrives.

You can use the comment function to mention typographical errors that you intend to fix. You can use the comment function to describe how in your forthcoming revision you will address comments that were made on your proposal. And you can use the comment function for anything else you wish to mention as regards your forthcoming revision.

Use of the comment function saves Online Commons users from having to re-read your entire proposal again if they are only interested in what has changed since they last read it. Use of the comment function also encourages discussion of the changes you are describing.

Once the official revision period arrives, you can prepare and submit your revised proposal with these changes incorporated, and we will post your full, revised proposal at that time for you.