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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 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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Editorial
The editorials are critical and in-depth commentaries developed at the invitation by the Editors or written by a person with known expertise in the topic. They try to reflect the opinions and personal postures of those who write them, that can be members of the editorial or independent authors.Original articles
The original article is a written report, with scientific and conceptual rigor, that communicates for the first time the results of a research. It describes fully and concisely the results of original research, containing all the relevant information for those who wish to reproduce the research or assess the results and conclusions.Brief communications
They are original but shorter manuscripts addressing topics of interest for scientific journal, with preliminary results or results of immediate relevance.Reviews
The review articles are analysis preferably solicited (by the Editors) from experts in the field. They are systematic, critical assessments of literature and data sources, aimed at critically reviewing and evaluating the current state of knowledge on a designated topic, in addition to commenting on studies by other authors.Letters to the Editor
The letters to the Editor presents reflections and reports of unusual cases, comments on relevant scientific topics, critiques of editorial policy, or opinions on the contents of the journal.Special articles
The special article is a scientific article published in another medium that, due to the relevance of its contents, is selected by the Editor to be diffused again with the permission of its author.Commentaries
The commentary is a text with summarized analytical information about the content of a published article, including comments from the author and a predominantly critical stance.Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- The authors will retain their copyright and will guarantee to the journal right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License that allows third parties to share the work whenever attribuying their author and first publication in this journal.
- The Author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the nonexclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the Work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), as long as there is provided in the document an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post online a pre-publication manuscript (but not the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version of the Work) in institutional repositories or on their Websites prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
