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 is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
- All papers submitted for publication are peer-reviewed by two members of the Scientific Board.
Author Guidelines
The paper should be divided into:
- Introduction
- Body of the paper (possibly subdivided)
- Conclusion
Structure of the paper
- Title
- Name and affiliation
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Main text
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements (optional)
- References
- Supporting materials
Style sheet
Length: 5 -10pages / 2000 – 4000 words, including abstract and references
Font: Times New Roman
Line spacing: 1.5
Paper format: A4
Margins: 2 cm left/right, 4 cm top/bottom
Alignment: justified
Paragraphs: indent all paragraph beginnings 1.25 cm
Title: 14 pt, bold capitals, centred
Name(s) of author(s), scientific title and academic affiliation: 12pt, bold, 2 lines below the title
Abstract: 50 - 100 words, in English: 12pt, italics, 2 lines below the author’s name
Keywords (in English): 4-8 keywords in alphabetical order, 1 lines below the abstract
Body of the paper: 12pt, 1 line below the keywords
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- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- 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 acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- 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
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