Submissions

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 file for evaluation does not have author identification in any part of the document, including the properties field.
• The supplementary document was prepared containing the title of the manuscript, full name of the author, institutional affiliation, highest academic title, ORCID and email address of each author in order of contribution.
• The extension of the article is within the permitted limit.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word.
• 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.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in the Submission Guidelines, under the Submissions tab on the Journal's website.
  
• Citations, bibliographic references and table formatting are presented in accordance with the standards of the American Psychological Association – APA (7th edition).