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 article was not published and was not sent for consideration to other publishers earlier (or the necessary explanations are given below in the comments for the editor).
  • Microsoft Word or RTF file is required.
  • Web links in the reference list come with full and correct URL.
  • The font size should be 14 with 1.5 line spacing in the text; copyright emphasis marked in italics rather than underlining (everywhere except URL); all illustrations, diagrams, and tables located directly in the text where they should be placed according to the context (not in the end).
  • The text meets stylistic and bibliographic requirements given in Author Guides of ‘About journal’ section.