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, or is under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has not been provided in comments to the editor).
- Manuscript files are in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- When available, URLs for references have been provided.
- Text 1 space; font 12; italics; not underlined (except URL address); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the text at appropriate points, not at the end.
- Texts that comply with the requirements regarding library and language style are outlined in the Author Guidelines, which will be found on the About Us page.
- If acceptance is for the peer-review portion of the journal, the instructions contained in Ensuring Anonymous Reviewers are followed.