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.

Author Guidelines

Authors have the following responsibilities:

To present a report of the research that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner.
To present their results clearly, truthfully, and without fraudulent, misrepresentation or improper data manipulation.
To provide, if needed, the unprocessed data in connection with a paper for editorial review.
To ensure that the work they submitted is an original work. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or referred. Plagiarism in all its forms comprises unethical publishing manners and is intolerable.
To describe their methods clearly and explicitly so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
Take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.
The authorship of research publications should precisely reveal individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting.
To disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
To report without delay the journal editor or publisher if an author notices a major inaccuracy or erroneousness in his/her own published work. He/she has to collaborate with the editor to withdraw or correct the paper.

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