How do I submit a proposal?
Send proposals by email to "anes-proposals@electionstudies.org" in Adobe PDF (
recommended) or Microsoft Word format. For consistency and security reasons, ANES staff members will post your proposal on the Online
Commons for you. Proposals sent in Word format will be translated to PDF format by an ANES staff member. Each proposal will then be
assigned a unique proposal number and posted as a new discussion in the appropriate Online Commons forum.
To expedite the processing of your proposal, please ensure that the following guidelines are met in your email submission:
- The proposal itself should be attached to the email, in Adobe PDF or Word format
- The proposal should meet the formatting and length guidelines listed in the How to Prepare a
Proposal document.
- There are no length restrictions on the title that appears in the proposal you are submitting. However, there is a limit to what
can be displayed in the Online Commons forum. If your title exceeds 50 characters, please provide a secondary title in the body of
your email that does not exceed 50 characters in length.
- Only Registered Users are allowed to post proposals and comments on the Online Commons. If a proposal has multiple authors, every
author must be a Registered User before the proposal can be posted. Please include your username, and the usernames of all other
authors in the body of your e-mail. If any authors on your proposal are not registered at the time of submission, they will have to
register prior to the submission deadline.
The usernames you provide will be attached to the proposal when we post it, so if you wish to post a proposal anonymously, make sure you provide us your anonymous username when you contact us. For additional information on obtaining an anonymous username, see the OC Registration Help and Information document.
How will I know that you have received my proposal
successfully?
If it is the first time you have sent an email to the
anes-proposals@electionstudies.org email address, you should receive an
auto-response email that your proposal has been received. An ANES staff member will also send you a personal confirmation when they
begin processing your proposal, whether you received the auto-response or not.
If you are submitting your proposal toward the end of the proposal submission period, there may be a delay in acknowledging and processing your proposal. However, as long as you submitted your proposal by the deadline, it will be considered received on time and posted as soon as possible. If you are submitting your proposal at the last minute, please save your "Sent" email to assist us in verifying that you submitted it on time, in case there is a technical issue and we do not receive it.
If you do not hear from us within one full business day of submitting your proposal, please contact us by email at anes@electionstudies.org and/or by telephone at 734-764-5494 (United States) to verify that we successfully received it.