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 manuscript has not been previously published and is not under consideration by any other journal. If the manuscript has been submitted elsewhere, an explanation must be provided in the Comments to the Editor section
- The submission file is prepared in one of the following formats: OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect. The file name must not exceed 50 characters, including spaces
- Where applicable, URLs for all references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced, uses a 12-point font, and employs italics rather than underlining (except for URLs). All tables, figures, and illustrations are embedded within the text at their appropriate locations, rather than placed at the end of the document
- The manuscript conforms to the stylistic, structural, and bibliographic requirements stated in the Author Guidelines
- To comply with the double-blind peer review policy, author names and affiliations must not appear in the manuscript file. All author information should be entered only in the metadata fields of the OJS submission system, as instructed in the Author Guidelines
- The author agrees to cover the operational costs if the manuscript is withdrawn during the review process
- The manuscript includes an Open Data Statement (where applicable), placed before the References section, providing details on data availability, repositories, and access conditions.
- The manuscript includes an Open Contributorship Statement, placed before the References section, specifying the individual roles and contributions of each author
- The author confirms that no Artificial Intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tools were used to generate or compose any part of the manuscript, and that all intellectual contributions are entirely human-authored
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License - Share Alike that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b. 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 acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
c. 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.
USER RIGHTS
All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA)





 
  
  
  
 












 
 