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, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 14 for title,12 for part and 11 for content; 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.
Copyright Notice
Copyright and Licensing
Authors retain the copyright of the published articles.
All published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits others to share and adapt the work, provided appropriate credit is given to the authors and the journal.
Originality of the Work
The manuscript must be an original work, free from plagiarism, and has not been previously published.
The manuscript is not currently under consideration for publication in another journal.
Author Agreement
All authors have read and approved the content of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission and publication.
The corresponding author is responsible for all communication with the journal.
Ethical Statement
Authors have complied with ethical standards in scholarly publishing, including avoiding data fabrication, falsification, and duplicate publication.
Journal Rights
The journal reserves the right to perform editing, formatting, and distribution of the article in both print and electronic forms.