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 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.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with The Journal agree to the following terms:1. By submitting the article, the authors agree to waive certain rights of control over the dissemination of their work in accordance with the journal’s policies
2. Upon acceptance of the article, authors agree to transfer the copyright of the article to the journal, including the rights to reproduce, distribute, and communicate the article in all forms and media.
3. Authors retain the rights to use their articles for scholarly purposes, such as teaching, inclusion in a thesis or dissertation, and sharing on non-commercial platforms.
4. This journal offers articles under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows others to share and adapt the work as long as proper attribution is given to the original authors.
5. The authors confirm that they have obtained all necessary permissions to use third-party materials, such as content, images, or graphics, which are copyrighted by others, and have provided appropriate credit.
