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 Microsoft Word document file format.
• The authors' guidelines guided the presentation of the paper, placing all illustrations, figures, and tables within the text at the appropriate points instead of at the end. We have provided URLs for the references when they are available.