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.
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• The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Publisher).
• The file must be OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
• If possible, URLs are provided for references.
• The text has simple leading; 12 font size points; is used italic instead of underscore (except urls); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate text locations, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the Author's Guidelines, which appear in About the Journal.
• If sent to a peer-evaluated section of the journal, the instructions should be followed in Securing an Anonymous Assessment.
Copyright Notice
Copyright Notices Proposed by Creative Commons
Proposed policy for journals offering deferred open access
Those authors who have publications with this journal, accept the following terms:
1. The authors will retain their copyright and guarantee to the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Recognition License CC BY-NC 4.0 (Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International — CC BY-NC 4.0 ) hird parties to share the work provided that its author and its first publication is indicated this journal and no commercial use is made.
2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive licensing agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., deposit it in an institutional telematics file or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication is indicated in this journal.
3. Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work over the Internet (e.g. in institutional telematics files or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html.