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).
• Cover Letter: The Authors Academic title(s), The name(s), professional or academic affiliation(s), and email address (es) of the corresponding author(s), ORCID Number (s) should be submitted separately in a cover letter.
• Submit a version of your manuscript without author details (name, affiliation or email address) for the review process.
• Submit a version of your manuscript with author details for review.
• Publication Metadata Form based on the provided template.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, Doi Numbers and URLs from scientific Websites for the references have been provided.
• The text is double-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.
• Authors should check their manuscript for accidental plagiarism before submission.