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 is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word document file format.
- The text is single-spaced with a space between paragraphs; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the appropriate points within the text, rather than at the end.
- Quotations from texts of 40 words or over should be indented (i.e.placed as a separate paragraph) without quotation marks. Quotations from participants should similarly be indented if 40 words or over; they should not be in italics.
- The text adheres to APA stylistic and bibliographic (i.e. referencing) requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. Check all quotations carefully to make sure they are exactly as in the original version, including spelling, punctuation, indents, wording, bolding, italics, formatting, etc. Use 3-point dots (ellipses) to indicate text left out of a single sentence; use 4-point dots to indicate material left out between different sentences or paragraphs.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- Please ensure that you submit (upload) two copies of your article - one named, the other blind. Your blind version should be labelled clearly as 'blind' and should not include your name.
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The front sheet of the manuscript should contain relevant information about the authors, affiliations and relevant funding or disclosures of competing interests. (This front sheet should be omitted from the ‘blind’ copy that is submitted.
1. Author details – If the article is published, all contributing authors will be named at the beginning of the paper and a brief biography (including affiliations, professional websites, ORCiDs and social media handles if available) will be placed at the end of the article. Otherwise, only the email and affiliations of the first author will be listed on the front page.
2. Funding details. Please supply details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies, for example: This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
3. Disclosure statement. Include a statement in your submission that you acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from your research. Please also declare any ‘competing interests’ within the article, for example: The author reports there are no competing interests to declare.
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