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; 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.
• All content that identifies the authors has been removed for the double-blind review
  process. This includes author names and affiliations, acknowledgments, and any citations in
  the content that refer to work that has previously been published by the authors.
• All necessary files have been uploaded.
• The manuscript has been spell checked and grammar checked.
• References are in the correct format (APA).
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
• Permission has been obtained for the use of copyrighted material from other sources
  (including the Web).