Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
You are required to read and acknowledge that you have met the following requirements before proceeding:
- The submitted manuscript has not been previously published and is not under consideration by another journal (unless an explanation has been provided in the comments to the editor).
- The manuscript file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document format.
- URLs for references have been provided, where available.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; italicized; without underlining (except for URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at appropriate points, not at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which can be found on the About Us page.
- If the manuscript is accepted for the peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions regarding Ensuring Anonymous Reviewers have been followed.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement 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 acknowledgement 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