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 has it been submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor section).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
- Whenever possible, URLs are provided for references.
- The text is single spaced; 12 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all the illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places of the text, instead of at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and biliographic requirements summarized in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About the journal.
- If submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring an anonymous evaluation should be followed.
Copyright Notice
- The authors retain their copyright but assign to the journal the right of the first publication, with the work registered under the Creative Commons attribution non commercial (CC BY NC) license, which allows third parties to use the published information for non commercial purposes as long as they mention the authorship of the work and that it was first published in this journal.
- Authors may make other independent or additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (eg, include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as it clearly indicates that the work was first published in this journal.
- Authors are encouraged and advised to publish their work on the Internet (for example, on institutional or personal pages) before and during the review and publication process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and a greater and faster dissemination of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes established in it and will not be provided to third parties or for their use for other purposes.