Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses). All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Copyright Notice
By submitting the paper, the author agrees that the paper will be published under the Creative Commons CC BY Attribution 4.0 International license.
When an article is accepted for publication, the author signs a publication agreement that includes a statement of authorship. The agreement is signed by the first or lead author on behalf of all co-authors.
Read more about our Open Access Policy and Copyright Notice.
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