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 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.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
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Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. The work is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits others to share the work provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors and to its initial publication in this journal.
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Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (for example, by posting it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), provided that acknowledgement is given to its initial publication in this journal.
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Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (for example, in institutional repositories or on personal websites) after the submission process, as this may facilitate productive academic exchange and increase the visibility and citation of the published work.
