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); 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.
Articles
Section default policyCopyright Notice
By submitting a manuscript to the journal, the authors agree to the following terms:
- Copyright Ownership
- Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the copyright for the published article shall be transferred to the journal.
- Authors retain the right to use their work for non-commercial purposes (e.g., teaching, institutional repository, personal website) provided that proper acknowledgment of the original publication in the Journal is given.
- License to Publish
- The work will be published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)unless otherwise agreed in writing.
- This license permits anyone to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) and source are properly cited.
- Author’s Responsibility
- The authors warrant that the manuscript is their original work, that it has not been previously published, and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- The authors affirm that the work contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe on the rights of others, and that any necessary permissions for copyrighted materials have been obtained.
- Acknowledgment of Publication Rights
- The authors grant the Journal the exclusive right to publish and disseminate the work in print and electronic formats, and to index it in relevant scholarly databases.
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