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 under consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Editor’s Comments).
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The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, PDF, or WordPerfect format.
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The text has single line spacing; 12-point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
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The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the guidelines appearing on this same page above.
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If submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring Anonymous Review must be 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 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 (See The Effect of Open Access).
Privacy Statement
The double-blind peer review process requires a high level of provacy. Only the appropriate information concerning a submitted article or the peer reviews related will be revealed to author, reviewers, editorial board members, or the publisher in order to preserve the anonymity of all the parts involved in the process. In addition, the editors are comitted to do not share personal information with others.