All submitted manuscripts are carefully assessed by the member of editorial board for their potential suitability. The manuscripts may also be sent to other experts for further input towards this decision. To save authors and external reviewers’ time, only those manuscripts judged most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent out for formal peer review (the criteria are novelty, significance, importance and strong evidence for the conclusions that are drawn).
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 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.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Articles
We consider each manuscript we receive using an extensive review process, which can take several weeks. The possible problem faced by some authors might be the uncomfortable pressure of having to make a decision about an offer from another journal before we are able to complete our review process. The best way to avoid this situation is to allow the Journal time to review your piece. We encourage you to submit your piece to us exclusively for six months. Authors submitting to us on an exclusive basis should use the prompts on the submission email showing the exact months or weeks. If you have received an offer of publication from another journal, please request expedited review of your submission via your author submissions account and our editors will be immediately notified of your deadline.
Essays
We consider each manuscript we receive using an extensive review process, which can take several weeks. The possible problem faced by some authors might be the uncomfortable pressure of having to make a decision about an offer from another journal before we are able to complete our review process. The best way to avoid this situation is to allow the Journal time to review your piece. We encourage you to submit your piece to us exclusively for six months. Authors submitting to us on an exclusive basis should use the prompts on the submission email showing the exact months or weeks. If you have received an offer of publication from another journal, please request expedited review of your submission via your author submissions account and our editors will be immediately notified of your deadline.
Reviews
We consider each manuscript we receive using an extensive review process, which can take several weeks. The possible problem faced by some authors might be the uncomfortable pressure of having to make a decision about an offer from another journal before we are able to complete our review process. The best way to avoid this situation is to allow the Journal time to review your piece. We encourage you to submit your piece to us exclusively for six months. Authors submitting to us on an exclusive basis should use the prompts on the submission email showing the exact months or weeks. If you have received an offer of publication from another journal, please request expedited review of your submission via your author submissions account and our editors will be immediately notified of your deadline.
Notes
We consider each manuscript we receive using an extensive review process, which can take several weeks. The possible problem faced by some authors might be the uncomfortable pressure of having to make a decision about an offer from another journal before we are able to complete our review process. The best way to avoid this situation is to allow the Journal time to review your piece. We encourage you to submit your piece to us exclusively for six months. Authors submitting to us on an exclusive basis should use the prompts on the submission email showing the exact months or weeks. If you have received an offer of publication from another journal, please request expedited review of your submission via your author submissions account and our editors will be immediately notified of your deadline.
Reports
We consider each manuscript we receive using an extensive review process, which can take several weeks. The possible problem faced by some authors might be the uncomfortable pressure of having to make a decision about an offer from another journal before we are able to complete our review process. The best way to avoid this situation is to allow the Journal time to review your piece. We encourage you to submit your piece to us exclusively for six months. Authors submitting to us on an exclusive basis should use the prompts on the submission email showing the exact months or weeks. If you have received an offer of publication from another journal, please request expedited review of your submission via your author submissions account and our editors will be immediately notified of your deadline.
Case comments
We consider each manuscript we receive using an extensive review process, which can take several weeks. The possible problem faced by some authors might be the uncomfortable pressure of having to make a decision about an offer from another journal before we are able to complete our review process. The best way to avoid this situation is to allow the Journal time to review your piece. We encourage you to submit your piece to us exclusively for six months. Authors submitting to us on an exclusive basis should use the prompts on the submission email showing the exact months or weeks. If you have received an offer of publication from another journal, please request expedited review of your submission via your author submissions account and our editors will be immediately notified of your deadline.