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 Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• The manuscript file contains all essential sections: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Research Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References.
• All manuscript and supplementary material files have been uploaded.
• All references mentioned in the References list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• Author names and their affiliations have been provided.
• The abstract can be read as stand-alone text and does not exceed 250 words.
• The text is single-spaced; uses Times New Roman with a 11 fonts for body paragraph; 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