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 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 adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- The title is informative. The title involves the major findings or at least study targets or methods, or both. The title does not include the words “study on,” “research into,” or “analysis of”.
- The Introduction consists of three sections: (i) known, (ii) unknown, and (iii) problem and (i) what is already known, (ii) what remains unknown, and (iii) what has been attempted to clarify here. If the subject is narrow, (ii) and (iii) can be combined.
- The end of the Introduction consists of a summary of (iii); what is the problem or question to be clarified or answered.
- The first paragraph of the Discussion consists of a short direct answer to the Introduction (iii), i.e., “what has been clarified or answered.”
- Study limitations appear in the second paragraph from the last paragraph of the Discussion.
- The last paragraph of the Discussion involves the study’s significance.
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