Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

Before completing the submission, authors must ensure that their manuscript complies with all the requirements listed below. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will be returned for correction before entering the editorial review process.

1. The submission is original and unpublished. It has not been previously published, is not currently under consideration by another journal or publication, and will not be submitted elsewhere while it is under review by this journal.
2. The “Declaration of Originality and Non-Publication” form is completed and signed by all authors and attached to the submission.
3. The “Author Information” form is completed and attached to the submission.
4. The manuscript is submitted in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) and complies with the journal’s publication guidelines, available at Journal Guidelines..
5. The manuscript complies with the journal’s citation requirements. In the first citation or paraphrase of each cited author, the full name and surname, year of publication, and page number (when applicable) are provided.
6. The reference list is included at the end of the manuscript and fully conforms to the Chicago citation style.
7. The text, tables, figures, images, graphs, and any other visual elements comply with the formatting and style requirements established in the Journal Guidelines.
8. The submitted file contains no information that could reveal the identity of the author(s). To ensure a blind peer-review process, all identifying information has been removed from the manuscript and from the document properties in Microsoft Word.
9. It is an original work, and the Declaration of Originality, available for download in the Declaration of Originality and Non-Publication section, has been attached to the submission.