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.
Open Access Policy
This journal is an open-access journal that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
This journal adheres to the best practice and high publishing standards and complies with the following conditions:
Provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge;
Allows the author to hold the copyright and to retain publishing rights without restrictions;
Deposits content with a long term digital preservation or archiving program;
Uses DOIs as permanent identifiers;
Embeds machine-readable CC licensing information in articles;
Allows generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with CC BY-NC license;
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