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Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Original Research

This section is open to all authors. Submissions to this section must be based on original research and will be subject to peer review.

Systematic Reviews

This section is open to all authors. All submissions will be subjected to peer review.

Obituaries

This section is open to all section editors. Submissions will not be peer reviewed.

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Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors are encouraged to deposit the published version of their article in institutional or subject repositories. They may use the work for educational and non-commercial purposes with appropriate acknowledgement of the journal as the original publisher.

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