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items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The paper is previously unpublished and has not been submitted to any other journal (otherwise, an explanation is included in "Comments to the Editor").
- The file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
- Where necessary, URLs have been added to the references.
- The text is single-spaced, font size 12, italicized where appropriate, not underlined (except for URL addresses); all illustrations, graphics, and tables are inserted at appropriate places in the text and not at the end of the text.
- The text follows the stylistic and bibliographic guidelines of the most recent issue of The Chicago Manual of Style and the Author Style Guide.
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