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 you are submitting a text for a section involving peer review, make sure you delete any reference to the author, either in the text itself or in the file details.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish their texts in this journal accept the terms listed below:
- Authors grant non-exclusive copyright and first publication rights to the journal, as well as the exploitation of published articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License attribution. This allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of authorship of the work and initial publication in this journal. They also allow the journal team to distribute its contents, in addition to the journal’s website, in all those scientific databases in which the journal is indexed, always with the aim of ensuring a wide distribution of the contents provided by the authors.
- Authors may republish the text elsewhere, specifying that it was originally published in this journal.
- Dissemination of articles by electronic means (e.g. in institutional databases or on the web) before and during the submission process is allowed and indeed encouraged, as it can generate productive exchanges and encourage early citation of published works) (see The Effect of Open Access).
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