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 file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Author(s) have read all guidelines, regulations, and editorial policies.
• Manuscript has used the reference tool manager. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• 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 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 text meets the bibliographic and stylistic requirements listed in the Guidelines for Authors, available in the “General Guidelines”.
• For papers subject to peer review: An abstract of no more than 200 words has been submitted, together with 3 keywords minimally from the UNESCO or ERIC thesauruses.