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.- 1. The submitted article should not have previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration
- 2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document (.doc) file format.
- 3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided
- 4. The text uses Garamond, single-spaced, 12-point font, and all illustrations, figures, and tables place within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end
- 5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- 6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed
- 7. There are no submission fees, processing fees, and publication charges for this journal
- 8. All submitted manuscripts should follow publication ethics in which they have to use academic citation when use arguments, data, and/or any information from other sources.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
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Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
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Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).