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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
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This journal operates a conventional double-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer's name is always concealed from the submitting author.
Authors should present their papers honestly without fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or inappropriate data manipulation. Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation.
Papers will be sent for anonymous review by at least two (2) reviewers who will either be members of the Editorial Board or others of similar standing in the field.
In order to shorten the review process and respond quickly to authors, the Editors may triage a submission and come to a decision without sending the paper for external review.
The Editor shall inform you of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully in 8-12 weeks.
The Editors’ decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into concerning manuscripts considered unsuitable for publication in this journal.
All correspondence, including notification of the Editors’ decision and requests for revisions, will be sent by email.
Authors and editors will safeguard each other's privacy to avoid all forms of copyright infringement, such as duplication, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism.