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 file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• Line spacing is 1.5; size 11 pt (main text) and 9pt (footnotes); the author employs italics, rather than underlining ; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. Paper size is A4 and the marigns - left and right margins 3 cm, top and bottom 2.5 cm. No hyphenation is allowed.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.