Submission Preparation Checklist

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their manuscript's compliance with all of the following points. Manuscripts that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to the authors.

  1. The manuscript has not been previously published, and is not currently under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
  2. The manuscript file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document format.
  3. If available, URLs for references have been provided.
  4. The text uses single spacing; 12-point font size; uses italics instead of underlining (except for URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at appropriate points, not at the end of the document.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which can be found in the About the Journal section.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.