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 submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided. At least 15 references have been cited.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• All submitted manuscripts will be checked for originality using Turnitin plagiarism detection software. The maximum acceptable similarity index is 25%. Manuscripts exceeding this threshold will be returned to the authors for revision before further review.