Submission Preparation Checklist

Upon submission of a manuscript to the journal, authors must confirm its compliance with all established requirements specified below. In the event that the submitted work does not meet these requirements, the editorial board will return the materials to the authors for revision.

• This submission has not been previously published and has not been submitted for consideration to other journals (or the necessary explanations have been provided in the comments for the editor below).
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect document format.
• Internet links within the text are accompanied by complete and correct URL addresses.
• The text complies with formatting requirements and includes all mandatory elements of an author’s manuscript.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines section “For Authors.”
• If the material is submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions for ensuring blind peer review have been followed in preparing the submission file.