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 double-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.
Articles
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Copyright Notice
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- The copyright of the published article remains with the authors.
- The authors grant the journal the right to publish and disseminate the article on an Open Access basis under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
- The authors are permitted to reuse, reproduce, or distribute part or all of the article for academic or non-commercial purposes, provided that the original publication is properly acknowledged and cited.
- This journal does not charge any Article Processing Charges (APCs). However, different provisions may apply if otherwise stated on the journal’s official website.
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