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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 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); 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.

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  1. The author retains copyright and grants the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which allows others to share the work with acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the journal's work (eg, posting it to an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to submit their work online (for example, in their institutional repository or website) before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and larger citations of published work see (The Effect of Open Access).

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