Submissions

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 submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses).
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• Title Page (English): This submission includes a separate title page in English as indicated in the author guidelines
• Figures for this submission are supplied as separate files with the figure number in the file name.
• Tables are presented on a separate page