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 text fulfills the stylistic and bibliographic conditions stated in the Guidelines for the Author.
- When submitting the text for peer review, the instructions found in Ensuring a Blind Peer Review should be followed.
- The paper has not been previously published nor has it been under consideration by another journal (unless an explanation in the Comments to the Editor has been provided).
- The submitted file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
- Any reference to the author and their affiliation have been eliminated, both in the text of the paper and in the file name.