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 submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text uses 1.2pt spacing; uses a 10-point Times New Roman 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. See our Typographic template for more details.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• As Diamond Open Access policy: author will not be requested any fee for either publishing an article or accessing and reading the journal content.
• Author should be notified that TurnitIn plagiarism software will be used in case of any research/publication integrity issue is being suspected. The software based research and similarity check is always followed by a deeper manual check and analysis of the structure of the submitted work. In case of possible hitches and gaps, the Managing Editorial team will inform the author, with respect of privacy, and the possibility of amending the work is usally offered. In case the timeline of production of the Issue is tight, the author may be offered to resubmit the work for a subsequent Issue of the Journal. In case of poor collaborative engagement, after discovering of large similarities, poor referencing or abusive reproduction of existing work, possible refusal to continue the publication process of the article is not excluded. Clear communication with the author is always done and integrity issues are dealts by a team of at least two different editors (with qualification of at least a PhD).
• Articles in any one of the six UN languages can be proposed, but in case your article is not in English we require a larger English Abstract, in addition to the Abstract in the given language. This English Abstract will be used for communication and promotion. The six official UN languages are: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.