Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any compensation claims.
Permissions:
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Declaration:
Authors are requested to submit the declaration form to confirm the originality of the article.
Title Page
Please make sure your title page contains the following information.
Title
The title should be concise and informative.
Author information
The name(s) of the author(s)
The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e., institution, department, city, state, country
A clear indication and an active email address of the corresponding author
If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published.
For authors that are (temporarily) unaffiliated we will only capture their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested.
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 5 keywords that can be used for indexing purposes.
Text
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in MS Word DOC. file and along with a PDF format.
Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times Roman, line space: 1.5; margin: 1 inch on each side) for text.
Use italics for emphasis.
Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
Don't use unnecessary tables, data, diagrams, graphics, and functions.
Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols..
References
Authors are encouraged to follow the official APA latest version guidelines on the number of authors included in reference list entries (i.e., include all authors up to 20; for larger groups, give the first 19 names followed by an ellipsis and the final author’s name).
Citation
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses.