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.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
- Please suggest 3 potential reviewers with their email addresses and institution mailing addresses in the “Comments for Editor” below. Please ensure that they are not in the same institution with the author(s). Kindly note that the journal may not use these suggestions but your help is appreciated as it will speed up the selection of approriate reviewers.
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Please provide a Graphical Abstract (optional) that summaries the paper in effort to increase citation. If the paper accepted for publication, the graphical abstract will be included in the journal’s website and social media.
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Please send us your twitter username to promote the article should your manuscript be accepted.
