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.
• Manuscript file preferably in LaTeX format. A Microsoft Word document file format also works.
• All necessary files for the manuscript have been provided:
  LaTeX: tex and bib files, images in pdf format and a finished pdf document.
  Word: docx file containing references.
• The images are delivered as separate pdf files, from which the empty margins have been removed and the size of the text and other image elements is sufficiently large.