Submission of materials

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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; 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.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Privacy Statement

The editor and members of the editorial board should not disclose information about the manuscripts accepted for publication to third parties who are not reviewers, potential reviewers, members of the editorial board, and employees of the printing house. Unpublished data obtained from manuscripts should not be used for personal research purposes without the written permission of the author. Information or ideas obtained during the review must remain confidential and not be used for personal gain. If there is a conflict of interest, editors must recuse themselves, ask for assistance from the editorial board and not take part in the decision to publish the article.