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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
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- The copyright of any article is held by its author.
- The author grants the journal, first publication rights with the work licensed concurrently under a Creative Commons Attribution License which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of authorship and the work's initial publication in this journal.
- Authors may make additional separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published journal version of the work (for example, posting it to an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (for example, in institutional repositories or on their websites) before and during the submission process, as doing so can lead to a productive exchange, as well as earlier and larger citation of the published work.
- Published articles and related materials are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License