Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Submissions
Solicited and contributed manuscripts must be one and half spaced and submitted online via this site. Submission of original manuscript to the journal will be taken to mean that it represents original work not previously published, that is not being considered elsewhere for publication; that the author is willing to assign copyright to the journal as per a contract that will be sent to the author just prior to publication and is accepted for publication, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the editor. Manuscripts need not exceed 30 pages and in-text citations and referencing need to be in APA format.

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is one and half spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication 
   with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 
   License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the 
   work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. 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.
3. 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 .