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). Illustrations, figures and tables should be submitted separately in jpeg or PDF. Please ensure that you highlight or cite the position of the figures and tables within the article.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• All authors have approved the submission of this article.
  
• SettingsAuthors Declare No Conflict of Interest. In the case of Conflict of Interest, the author pledges to attach a declaration stating the conditions therewith.