Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word.
• The submission contains a list of references. When available, the URLs (preferably DOIs) to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference.
• All illustrations, figures and tables are enclosed in jpg format.
• All authors have significantly contributed to the research and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
• Information on financial support of the research is provided by authors
• The Author warrants and represents that the Work does not infringe upon any copyright, proprietary, or personal right of any third party. If the Work contains any material that is owned or controlled by a third party, the Author certifies that he/she has obtained permission for its use and that the material is clearly acknowledged within the text.

  This warrant concerns the entire manuscript, text as well as pictures, sound, video, data sets etc. The author also warrants to us that he/she has full authority to enter into this agreement and that the rights he/she is granting to the journal are done so without breaching any obligations he/she may have.

• For formatting your document, please respect our style sheet.