For Authors
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The guidelines listed below must be followed.
Your cover letter should contain:
- the name of the lead or primary author
- the title of your paper
- a statement indicating that you are not submitting simultaneously to another journal
- a statement that your paper has not been published in whole or part in a journal or book.
You must include your manuscript in the following two separate Microsoft Word attachments, with DOCX extensions:
- the abstract, including author information, and
- the manuscript itself including author information. Author information will be removed for manuscript review.
Intial Review
Cover Page:
The cover page must contain the paper title, the author(s), their affiliation, and a maximum of five key words. The cover page must also provides complete correspondence information for the primary author including:
- postal address,
- telephone number, and
- e-mail address.
Body of Paper:
- The first page of the manuscript for review must contain the title of the paper and the abstract. Please limit the abstract to 100 words. No other information should be included on the first page.
- The body of the text must be double-spaced using a 12-point font.
- Placement for tables should be indicated in the manuscript.
- Footnotes must be used rather than endnotes.
- All pages except the abstract page should be numbered consecutively at the bottom of the page.
- The references should be inserted after the main body of the paper. They must be followed by appendices, tables (one per page), and figures (one per page). All material has to be part of the paper. Figures must also be included as seperate files in vector format if possible (e.g. EPS, AI).