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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).
- Submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- Where available, URLs for references have been provided.
- The text is single spaced; use 12 point font; use italics instead of underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, not at the end.
- The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which can be found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring Blind Review have been followed.
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