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, 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); and 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 article/manuscript of the article to this journal, the author(s) agree with this policy. No specific document sign-off is required.
- Author(s) retain the copyright of articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Author(s) give the rights to the first publication to this journal.
- Author(s) are included in a separate additional contractual arrangement for the non-exclusive distribution of a published version of the journal (for example: posting it to an institutional repository or publishing an article in a book), with recognition of the initial publication in this journal.
- Author(s) can post their articles online (for example: in institutional repositories or on their website or social media) after being published by this journal, with the aim of increasing article citation (See the Open Access Effect).
