Submissions

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.
• The submission of a manuscript implies that, if accepted for publication, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the publisher.
  By submitting the manuscript authors declare their agreement with the conditions set out in the copyright notice. Authors also declare that the submission has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal for consideration (in cases where these criteria are not met, an explanation must be provided in comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format (.doc or .docx format). Note that PDFs cannot be accepted.
• The manuscript has been carefully formatted according to the stylistic and bibliographic guidelines specified by the journal. Special attention has been paid to the exact application of the APA referencing convention to both continuous citations and the list of references.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. If a reference has a DOI number assigned, it has also been provided in the list of references.
• Authors may suggest two experts appropriate for the evaluation of the manuscript. The experts should not be affiliated with the authors, and at the same time, should be from different institutions. The suggested reviewers have been submitted into text fields in the submission form of the editorial system. Institutional emails for the suggested reviewers have been included.
• Blind review must be ensured. The manuscript should not contain any information on names of author(s), affiliations, funding grants, etc. Authors’ names, detailed affiliations and funding grants should only occur in the description of the manuscript (in the editorial system).