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 manuscript has not been published previously, and has not been submitted to another journal/proceedings for consideration (or an explanation for this has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format using this template.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables must be referred to in the text.
• The length of the paper should be between 8 and 16 pages.
• The paper must include a minimum of 15 references.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the paper template.