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.
• All requirements and rules in: (a). Author Guidelines; (b). Peer Review Process; (c). Retraction and/or Corrections Policy; (d). Publication Ethics, have been read and agreed upon by all authors of the submitted paper
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• The manuscript has followed the template available in the Author Guidelines, which can be found in the Template and Submissions Menu.