Submissions

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 typed with single line spacing; the font size is 12 points; italics are used for emphasis, not underlining (except for URLs); all illustrations, graphs and tables are located in the appropriate places in the text, and not at the end of the document.
• The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements described in Author Guidelines, which can be found on the About Journal page.