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 contribution must be original and unprecedented and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal; otherwise, it should be explained in "Comments to the editor".
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The submission file must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format.
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URLs for referrals must have been informed when possible.
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The text must be in simple space; use a 12-point font; employ italics rather than underscore (except at URL addresses); the figures and tables must be inserted into the text, not at the end of the document in the form of attachments.
- The text must follow the patterns of style and bibliographic requirements described in Guidelines for Authors, on the About the Journal page.
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In case of submission to a peer-reviewed section (e.g. articles), the instructions available in Ensuring blind peer evaluation must have been followed.
- The author and co-authors must have an ORCID identifier and have informed, in their registration, the full URL. Example: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097
Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution-Non-Commercial International4.0, which allows the sharing of work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are authorized to assume additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g., publish in institutional repository or as a book chapter), with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their personal page) after publication in this journal.
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