Submissions

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• The author(s) agree that the submitted paper must be unpublished, nationally and internationally, and is not under consideration for publication in any other dissemination vehicle (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.

• The author(s) is(are) in accordance with the editorial policy of the journal which limits the number of articles sent per author to two submissions per year, regardless of their position in the authorship; and does not allow the re-submission of a modified version of a rejected article.

• The author(s) agree that the maximum number of participants per article and changes (inclusion and substitution) in the authorship of articles after online submission will not be allowed. Requests for change of authorship imply archiving of the article.

• The author(s) agree that the paper file must not contain identification of the author or co-authors.

  
  

  The identification of the authorship is made in a separate file "supplementary document", where the title of the work, the full name(s) of(s) author(s), the institution(s) to which he/she is linked, the position(s) he/she holds, address, e-mail and academic background. When the work is written by several authors, it is necessary to order them according to the contribution of each one.

  
  

  If the author(s) wants to cite his/her work(s) in the text of the article, he/she must use the anonymous form in the body of the text and in the bibliographic reference list. Example: XXXXX (YEAR).

• The author(s) agree that the publication of two papers with considerable overlap is not acceptable, even in different academic journals.

• The author(s) agree that the submitted paper must follow the ethical standards and formatting standards used by the journal.