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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.- Articles should not be previously published or submitted for consideration in other journals (an explanation regarding possible conflicts must be provided in a “Comments for the Editor” section otherwise).
- The submission must be sent as an OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect document.
- Whenever posible, DOI and URL addresses should be included in the works cited. Only cited references should be included in the bibliography.
- Authors must use double-line spacing, 12-point size typeset, and italics (instead of underlining except for URL addresses) and all illustrations, graphics and tables should be placed correctly within the text, not at the end.
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