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 and is not under consideration by another journal, unless an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document format.
• Where available, URLs have been provided for all references.
• The text is single-spaced, uses a 12-point font, employs italics rather than underlining (except for URLs), and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at appropriate points.
• The submission adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.