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.- 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 text has been written using the appropriate Word or Latex templates and adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Series.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Series.
- Where available, DOIs and URLs for the references have been provided.
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The publication of this contribution has been approved by all authors and by the authorities where the work has been carried out.
- If re-using material (e.g. images, excerpt of texts) originally published elsewhere, all copyrights have been cleared (where required).
- All illustrations, figures have been provided in the allowed formats (JPG, TIFF, PNG) and at a resolution of at least 300 DPIs. In case of a contribution in Word, all original files have been provided separately.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY-4.0 (link to external page) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
