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 articles in this journal agree to the following terms:
The author owns the copyright and grants first publication rights to the Journal with work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License which allows others to share the work with the work acknowledged and first published in this journal
Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (for example, posting it to an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgment of the first publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to upload their work online (for example, in an institutional repository or on an author's website) before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier citations and a larger number of citations of the published work. (See the impact of open Access).