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Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.

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Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Copyright remains with the authors, and they grant this journal the right of first publication.

  2. The work is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), which permits others to share, copy, redistribute, and adapt the work—even for commercial purposes—as long as appropriate credit is given and any derivative works are licensed under the same terms.

  3. Authors may enter into separate, additional, non-exclusive contractual arrangements for the distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or include it in a book), provided that they acknowledge its initial publication in this journal.

  4. Authors are encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories, personal websites, or preprint servers) before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive academic exchanges and greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).

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