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 PDF, OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. The article must be written using our Template File for Manuscript Writing, which is downloadable from Information - For Authors at the bottom.
• 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.
  
  Please write your article using our MS Word Template File for Manuscript Writing, which is available under the Information - For Authors at the bottom.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.