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.

1. This submission has not been previously published and has not been sent for consideration to the editorial boards of other journals (or the necessary explanations have been provided in the comments to the editor below).

2. The submission file is a document in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

3. Internet links in the text are provided with complete and correct URLs.

4. The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements set out at the following links:

4.1. Article formatting requirements.
4.2. Article formatting requirements including reference list formatting requirements.