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.

• Only unpublished papers that are not under review for publication elsewhere can be submitted.
• The submission has not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works.
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format (.doc, or .docx). PDF files are not accepted.
• Submitted papers should strictly follow the format of the Paper Template.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.