Submission Preparation Checklist

Our Submission Process

• During the submission process, authors are kindly requested to confirm the compliance of their submission with the following items and adhere to the authors guidelines. Please note that submissions that fail to adhere to these guidelines may be returned to authors for necessary adjustments.
• 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; 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.