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 and a separate document submission in pdf format).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Fill the Comment for Editor with PREFERRED REVIEWERS (At least three reviewers from two countries with an email address, institution, and field of research)
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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are not restricted by the journal from entering into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., posting it to an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after its publication in this journal. This approach aims to safeguard against potential plagiarism or unauthorized use of unpublished manuscripts, as outlined in the submission guidelines which state that this journal does not accept previously published manuscripts.
The copyright transfer statement can be downloaded here.
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