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and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The contribution is previously unpublished and has not been submitted to any other journal (if not, include a ‘Note to the editor’).
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The file is available in Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
Please note:
An author’s individual format can be used with the prior agreement and approval of our technical department.
An extension of the available standard formats is planned for the future. - URLs are included in the bibliography wherever possible.
- The text is available with 1.5 line spacing, font size 10, italics where appropriate, not underlined (except URL addresses); illustrations, graphs and tables are included in the text body in the appropriate place and not at the end of the text.
- The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the authors’ guidelines under ‘About us’.
- Contributions submitted for columns intended for peer reviews…
Copyright Notice
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Authors wishing to publish in this journal agree to the following:
- The author/s retain/s the copyrights and consent/s to initial publication of the work in the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, which allows third parties to use the work by citing the name/s of the author/s and this journal as initial publisher (in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 DE-Licence).
- The author/s can enter into additional contracts for the non-exclusive distribution (e.g. publish in a collection or book) of the version published in the journal, if the journal is cited as initial publisher.
