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 manuscript submissions have never been published by other journals before, and also at the same time have not been submitted to another journal, nor in the process of review by another journal. The manuscript must contain no materials the publication of which would violate any copyright or other personal or proprietary right of any person or entity.
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format (do not submit in PDF format).
- The manuscript submission adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal. The article is typed with a space of 1.5; with Cambria font, 11 pt. All figures and tables are placed in the text in the correct section, not at the end of the file. All figures and tables must be in editable format (not screenshots).
- Citations and bibliographies should be compiled using the Mendeley reference manager. If available, each reference is accompanied by a complete URL. References of journal articles are preferred to include a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
- The authors agree to pay the Article Processing Charge (APC) when the manuscript is decided to be accepted for publication.
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Studies involving human participants or animal subjects must obtain ethical clearance from a recognized Institutional Review Board (IRB) or relevant ethics committee. If the research involves the use of chemicals, procedures, or equipment that may pose specific hazards, these must be clearly identified in the manuscript.
For studies involving human participants, a statement confirming that written informed consent was obtained must be included. The privacy and confidentiality of all research participants must be strictly protected.
