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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines  for the preparation of papers are contained in a separate PDF document. You can download the template through this link.

A step-by-step guide to the electronic submission process is available in a separate PDF document.

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.docx) format.
   
3. The paper is no more than 7 500 words long, excluding references, tables, figures and appendices.
4. The page size is A4 portrait, with margins of 2 cm on all sides.
5. The text uses Arial 10pt font; uses 1.5 line spacing; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
6. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Copyright Notice

Authors who submit papers to this journal agree to the following terms:

a) Authors retain copyright over their work, while allowing the journal to place this work on the journal website under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely access, use, and share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and its initial publication in this journal.

b) Authors are able to waive the terms of the CC license and enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution and subsequent publication of this work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

c) In addition, authors are encouraged to post and share their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) at any point after publication on the journal website.

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The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.