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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 provided submission template was used and the manuscript is formatted accordingly.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses an 11-point Garamond 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.
  • Where available, DOIs for all references have been provided. If DOI's do not exist, URLs are provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the provided template.
  • Self-citation should be limited, and when necessary always utilized in 3rd person. No identifying information should be overtly present in initial uploaded documents.

Author Guidelines

All submissions must be formatted using the official submission template in order to be reviewed. The template can be downloaded from here. 

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