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 manuscript has not been published before, and is not being considered for publication in another journal (or as explained in Comments to the Editor).
- Manuscript files are in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document format.
- References that can be accessed online have their URLs written down.
- The manuscript is typed with 1 spaced text; font 12; use italics, not underlined letters (except URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the text in the expected places, not grouped separately at the end of the text.
- The manuscript follows the stylistic and bibliographic rules required in the Author's Guide.
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- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
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