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 Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than bold or underlining; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text is compliant with the authors’ guidelines.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the full-text of the submission is anonymized, including the file properties.
Copyright Notice
Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The authors agree when submitting their work that it can be copied by anyone for noncommercial purposes but only if proper credit is given. Thus by virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, the articles have been declared free to use, with proper attribution, in noncommercial settings. All authors are responsible for the content of their work, including proper citation, attribution and usage permissions.
See also our Open Access Policy.
Metadata
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Metadata — including references — may be re-used in any medium without prior permission for both not-for-profit and for-profit purposes. We kindly ask users to provide a link to the original metadata record.
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