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
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports greater global knowledge exchange.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Authors who publish work with this journal agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal first publication rights under a Creative Commons Attribution license that allows others to share the work with acknowledgement of ownership of the work and initial publication of this work in this journal.
Authors may enter into a separate, additional contractual agreement for non-exclusive distribution of the version published by the journal (e.g., incorporating it into an institutional repository or publishing it in a book) with acknowledgment of the initial publication of this work in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their websites) before and during the submission process, as this can result in productive exchanges, as well as increased citations of work published early (See Open Access Effect).