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.
• I acknowledge that the article is subject to rejection if it does not adhere to the provided guidelines.
• I agree to pay the applicable publication fee in accordance with the journal's publication fee policy. Publication fee must be paid before the manuscript enters the peer-review stage. Please refer to the Author Publication Charge (APC) policy for information on applicable fees.
• The article must not violate plagiarism or AI-generated content regulations as stated in the Plagiarism & AI Policy.
• IMPORTANT! All author names listed in the AUTHORS IDENTITY file must be added to the metadata in Step 3 of the article submission process. If NOT included, they will not appear in the published version of the article. THE LIST AND NUMBER OF AUTHORS MUST EXACTLY MATCH BETWEEN THE SUBMISSION METADATA AND THE FINAL MANUSCRIPT (MAXIMUM 6 AUTHORS PER ARTICLE).