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 manuscript has not been previously published, and is not under consideration for publication in another journal (or as described in Comments to the Editor).
  
• Manuscript files are in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document format.
• References that can be accessed online have their URLs written.
• Manuscripts are typed with 1-spaced text; 12-point font; italicized, not underlined (except URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the text where they are expected, not grouped separately at the end of the manuscript.
• Manuscripts follow the rules of style and bibliography required in the Instructions for Authors.