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.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font, using Times New Roman 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.
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Authors reserve the right to authorship of their work and transfer to the journal the right of first publication of this work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely distribute the published work with mandatory reference to the authors of the original work and the first publication of the work in this journal.
Authors have the right to conclude independent additional agreements regarding the non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form in which it was published by this journal (for example, placing the work in the electronic repository of the institution or publishing as part of a monograph), provided that the link to the first publication of the work in this journal is preserved.
The policy of the journal allows and encourages authors to post a manuscript on the Internet (for example, in institutional repositories or on personal websites), both before submitting this manuscript to the editors and during its editorial processing, as this contributes to the emergence of a productive scientific discussion and has a positive effect on the efficiency and dynamics of citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
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