Submission Checklist

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 in journals, books, conferences, or seminar proceedings, nor is it currently under consideration by another journal or any of the channels above (or an explanation is provided in the Comments to the editor).
• The "Publications Ethics and Best Practice" established by the journal has been read and understood.
• The submitted file is in Microsoft Word format (.doc, .docx) following the journal's template.
• URLs have been provided for the references when available.
• The author's name and any possible references that could reveal the author's identity have been removed from the text. Identification data is included in the METADATA, which will be requested during the article submission process.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements listed in the "Authors’ Guidelines"