Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

• 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, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
• 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.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
• In the case of sending the text to the peer evaluation section, the following instructions are followed to ensure an anonymous evaluation:
  Efforts should be made to ensure that authors and reviewers do not know each other's identities. This implies that authors, editors and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) check whether the following steps have been followed carefully regarding the text and file properties:
  
  The authors of the paper have their names removed from the text, with "Author" and the year used in references and footnotes instead of the authors' names, title of the article, etc.
  In Microsoft Office documents, author ids should also be removed from the file properties.
  
  For Microsoft Word 2003 and earlier, and Macintosh versions of Word:
  From the File menu choose: Save As > Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security > Remove Personal Information in File Properties on Save > Save.
  
  For Microsoft Word 2008 (and future versions) on MacOS:
  From the File menu select "Properties".
  On the Summary tab, remove identifying information from all fields.
  Save the File.
  
  For Microsoft Word 2007 (Windows):
  Click the Office button in the upper left corner of the Office app
  Select "Prepare" from the Options menu.
  Select "Properties" for the "Prepare" Options menu.
  Remove all information from the document properties fields that appear below the main options menu.
  Save the document and close the document properties fields section.
  
  For Microsoft Word 2010 (Windows):
  In the File menu select "Prepare for sharing".
  Click the "Problem Check" icon.
  Click the "Inspect Document" icon.
  Uncheck all the boxes except "Document properties and personal information".
  Run the document inspector, which will perform a search on the document properties and indicate whether any document property fields contain any information.
  If the document inspector finds any information it will notify you and give you the option to "Delete All" which you will have to click to remove all document properties and personal information.
  
  From Word 2016 onwards (Windows):
  Go to "File"
  Select "Information"
  Click on "Check for problems"
  Click "Inspect Document"
  In the "Inspect Document" dialog box, select the check boxes to choose the type of hidden content you want to inspect.
  Click "Remove All"
  Click "Close"
  save the document
  Microsoft Word for macOS:
  Go to "Tools"
  Click on "Protect document"
  Select "Remove personal information from file on save"
  Click OK and save the file
  
  For PDF files:
  On PDFs, author names should also be removed from the document properties found under File in the Adobe Acrobat main menu.