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• The article is previously unpublished and has not been submitted to any other journal (otherwise an explanation is attached in "Comments for the editor").
• The file is in Microsoft Word or RTF format.
• The text is provided with single line spacing, font size 12, possibly italic, not underlined (except for URL addresses); the position of all illustrations, graphics and tables is marked by a placeholder at a suitable place in the text. The illustrations, graphics and tables are delivered separately.
• Wherever possible, URLs were added to the literature references.
• The text follows the stylistic and bibliographical guidelines in Guidelines for Authors , which can be found under "About us".