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.
• The uploaded version of the article must be anonymous; all data referring to the identity of the author must be deleted from the file.
• The article is accompanied by an abstract and keywords.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• Where available, URLs and DOI numbers for the references have been provided.