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).
- Is your submission fully anonymized? Please do not include any identifying information in the manuscript file. Submitter (author) information is collected separately, via the online submission form.
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word.
- The text is in Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1.5. spacing; 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.
- All tables, charts, figures and images need to be in jpg format. Their resolution must be at least 300 dpi.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Where available, DOI number are added.
- In order to submit a paper, a graduate student must have a recommendation of their mentor who supervised the paper. Please upload the reference.
Articles
Section default policyCopyright Notice
Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the 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-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). This license allows commercial and non-commercial distribution use of the article, if the name of the author is properly acknowledged and if the article remains unchanged. In further use of the article, full bibliographic information of the original article published in the journal must be provided (author, article title, journal title, volume, issue and pagination), and an HTML link must be made to the article's DOI.
Authors may enter the separate, additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the journal 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.
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