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 or previously sent to another journal (or an explanation to this end has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The uploaded file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect.
URLs have been provided for the references when available.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements listed in the Authors’ Guidelines.
The author/s guarantee(s) the authorship of the documents presented, as well as any text or image. If the work has significant contributions from more than one author, all should appear as co-authors and should accurately reflect who did the work. All authors meet the journal's criteria for authorship and that nobody who meets these criteria has been omitted from the list.
The Author/s guarantee(s) that the rights to the images presented in the work have been secured, and the right to cite has been properly used, thus complying in full with Intellectual Property Law.
