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 or proposed to another journal (or an explanation is provided to the editor in the comments).
  
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
• Wherever possible, the URLs of the references have been provided
• Text has single spacing; uses a 12-point font; uses italics instead of underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed inside the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographical requirements summarized in the author's guidelines, which can be found on the information page of the journal.