Online 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 underconsideration for publication by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or word processing document (doc, docx, rtf, odt) file format. PDF format not allowed for manuscript submission.
• The submission constitutes original work (screening for plagiarism will be undertaken). Submissions not adhering to these guidelines may be returned to authors.
• Complete the cover letter and copyright transfer agreement and follow the author’s guidelines, and attach them to the upload files section together with the manuscript file.