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 manuscript text (only text) is in a single Microsoft Office file (doc, docx) file separated from image and tables, in Arial 12pts. The figures and tables are in a second Microsoft Office file or PDF (doc,docx, pdf) following the author's guidelines.
• The images and table have the especific size (width of 3.2 inches or 6.5 inches). Table and figure title in 10pts, Table content in 9pts and footnotes at 8pts. Each figure and table are in a separate page.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined.