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.

• 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. Please use our journal template to write the manuscript.

• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
• By submitting a manuscript to this journal, I declare that I agree to all the provisions that apply to this journal and will not withdraw the manuscript during the review process until the manuscript is declared rejected by the journal's editorial team, as stated in this journal's Manuscript Policies.