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 .doc or .docx document file format.
- Where available, DOIs/URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font for article text and 11-point for abstract(s) and reference list; 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.
- If the manuscript has more than one author, each coauthor's contribution should be described according to the CRediT taxonomy for specifying individual contributions. Please be advised that one author may have multiple roles, and roles of several authors can overlap. Not all roles have to apply to every manuscript - you are asked to determine only the roles applicable to your paper.
Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media. Articles will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Authors can enter the separate, additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the published paper (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.