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.

• This material was not previously published, nor was it submitted for review and publication in another journal (otherwise it should be explained in the Commentary for the editor).
• The file with the material is presented in the document format of OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF.
• Full URLs are provided for links where possible.
• The text is typed with a single line spacing; The font size is 12 points; it uses italic, not underscore (except for URLs); all illustrations, graphs and tables are located in the appropriate places in the text, and not at the end of the document.
• The text corresponds to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements described in the Authors Guide, which can be found on the "About the Journal" page.