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 is an original work by the author(s), and has not been previously published, nor is it currently under consideration for publication by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in 'comments for the editor').
- The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format (.docx) and the text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- An anonymized Author Declaration section is included, at the end of the manuscript (before the references), which addresses any grant support, financial interest, or conflicts to disclose. If there is nothing to declare, state that.
- Endnotes conform Chicago Style (i.e. the Notes and Bibliography Style within the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style), and are formatted electronically in MS Word.
- Acknowledgments, when included, appear at the beginning of the Notes as an unnumbered endnote.
- Images and tables, when included, are submitted as separate files (one file per image: images in .tiff, tables in .docx). Figure callouts are placed in the manuscript on a separate line, figure captions are included at the end of the manuscript (after the Notes section).
- In the 'comments for the editor' field (see below), the author has provided the name, institution, and contact information of at least two potential reviewers with expertise in the topic. The author must disclose their relation to the reviewers (past collaborator, student, collegue, etc.). If there is no relation/connection, state that as well.
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